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The middle-aged brain changes a lot – and it’s key to understanding dementia

Cork (Ireland), Mar 20 (The Conversation) Our brains change more rapidly at various times of our lives, as though life’s clock was ticking faster than usual. Childhood, adolescence and very old age are good examples of this. Yet for much of adulthood, the same clock seems to tick fairly regularly. One lap around the Sun; one year older. However, there may be a stage of life when the brain’s clock starts speeding up. The brain starts changing without you necessarily noticing it. It may even be caused (partly) by what’s in your blood. This stage of brain ageing during your

Coal scam: Delhi Court discharges Manoj Jayaswal, others in money laundering case

New Delhi [India], March 19 (ANI): The Special Court of Delhi, appointed by the Supreme Court for the trial of coal block allocation matters, discharged businessman Manoj Kumar Jayaswal and all other accused in a case of money laundering of more than 300 crore rupees on Tuesday. The special judge, Arun Bhardwaj, passed the order on Tuesday and decided to discharge all the accused in the case. He said that, as in this case there is no material to support the allegation of the offence of money laundering against any of the accused, all three accused are discharged. “There would

EC appoints Sanjoy Mukherjee as Bengal DGP, shunts out Vivek Sahay within a day

Kolkata, Mar 19 (PTI) The Election Commission on Tuesday removed Vivek Sahay as West Bengal DGP, less than 24 hours after naming him for the post, and directed the state government to appoint Sanjoy Mukherjee, a year junior to Sahay in the IPS cadre, in his place. The move, unprecedented in recent memory, rendered Sahay the shortest-serving DGP of West Bengal. Sahay, an IPS officer of the 1988 batch, was initially offered the appointment since he was the senior-most officer in the force. But owing to his scheduled superannuation on May 31, well ahead of the formal conclusion of the

Air pollution a major source of lung diseases needs to be controlled Health experts

New Delhi, Mar 19 (PTI) Air pollution has become a major source of lung diseases and plays a major part in exacerbating other ailments such as diabetes and sleep apnea, health experts said on Tuesday and called for measures to control it. There is an urgent need to control it in summer months to ensure air pollution woes do not impact people in the winter, they stated. On the second day of the ‘Illness to Wellness’ summit organised by ASSOCHAM Foundation for CSR, medical practitioners shared their views on how air pollution has become a major source of lung diseases

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