Wake Forest researchers Christina Hugenschmidt and Christina Soriano discuss their IMPROVment® program, which uses improvisational dance to improve balance, mood, and brain health in older adults with neurodegenerative disease.
Categories: Neuroscience & Society
A Wake Forest pilot study found that HIRREM — a noninvasive acoustic brainwave-mirroring technology — significantly reduced PTSD symptoms and improved heart rate variability in military veterans.
Categories: Neuroscience & Society
Watching his kindergartener play on a school playground, Alan Brown, director of the Wake Forest Center for Literacy Education, found the theme for this year’s Visiting Scholars Speaker Series.
Categories: Emerging & Future Technologies, Home Page, Neuroscience & Society
Wake Forest is proving that the arts are a critical tool for medical recovery and cognitive health.
Categories: Home Page, Neuroscience & Society
Wake Forest researcher Jason Fanning explains why framing physical activity as “movement” — not “exercise” — is key to helping older adults build lasting healthy habits and reduce chronic pain.
Categories: Health, Medicine, & Humanity, Neuroscience & Society
Wake Forest management professor Julie Holliday Wayne’s research reveals that women carry about 80% of the “invisible family load” — the unseen managerial, cognitive, and emotional work of running a household — but finds surprising upsides too.
Categories: Neuroscience & Society
The landmark two-year U.S. POINTER trial, co-designed by Wake Forest’s Jeffrey Katula and Laura Baker, found that structured lifestyle interventions targeting exercise, diet, and cognitive challenge significantly improved cognition in older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s.
Categories: Neuroscience & Society
Wake Forest developmental psychologist Christy Buchanan explains how negative stereotypes about adolescents create confirmation bias that undermines parenting confidence, strains parent-teen relationships, and causes parents to miss the majority of positive teen behaviors.
Categories: Neuroscience & Society
Wake Forest named Kenneth Kishida, Ph.D. — renowned for measuring dopamine and serotonin in real time in awake human brains — as the inaugural Boswell Chair, anchoring the University’s new interdisciplinary Neuroscience and Society initiative.
Categories: Neuroscience & Society
A Wake Forest and East China Normal University fMRI study found that spicy food lovers and haters activate entirely different brain regions in response to the same sauces — illuminating the neural basis of the placebo effect.
Categories: Neuroscience & Society