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It is possible to prevent or delay dementia By changing risk factors like those from tobacco smoking, alcohol abuse, social isolation, lack of physical activity, air pollution and other conditions (called "noncommunicable" or NCDs, including high blood pressure and diabetes) it is possible to prevent or delay over forty-five percent of dementia cases, at least according to international health organizations which highlight that dementia is the seventh leading cause of death among older people worldwide and one of the main causes of disability and dependence on help from others. Fifty-seven million people are living with dementia globally and there are almost ten million new diagnoses each year with Alzheimer's being the most common in sixty to seventy percent of cases, creating a significant burden for the families of the patient and generally for everyone. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 18, 2026 
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 Discussions on a temporarily resolved Alzheimer's case After living with advanced Alzheimer’s for about ten years resulting in memory loss, speech and movement difficulties, no bladder control, an eighty-year-old woman temporarily recovered after a high dose of psilocybin (about nineteen hours after administration) a natural substance found in certain types of mushrooms. In the following days her vital functions apparently improved, she was able to walk better, dress herself, smile and look family members in the eyes recognizing them, with remarkable improvement in bladder control since she had suffered from incontinence for years. Researchers warn that this is just a single patient without a control group, so caution is needed and the brain hasn’t actually healed; only temporary reconnections in the brain occurred. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 13, 2026 n°: 6280 Staying in shape to prevent Alzheimer's Adopting a healthy lifestyle with a balanced diet and adequate physical activity to promote cardiovascular health could be useful in preventing Alzheimer's disease, which slowly deprives the affected person not only of memory and the ability to carry out daily activities but also often forces family members to take full-time care of the patient. Some say that one in eight people over the age of sixty-five could be forced to live with Alzheimer's, a kind of pandemic, also due to the increased longevity in the population. Staying active through social activities, learning to play a musical instrument, practicing meditation daily, exercising the mind with reading and continuing to stay informed could help reduce the incidence of the disease. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 02, 2026 n°: 6270 Pigeons may orient themselves using the liver From studies carried out in the past it was generally thought that birds oriented themselves by looking for a kind of magnetic trace through light-sensitive molecules in their eyes or located in the beak or inner ear, but now German researchers may have found an organ unexpectedly as the liver. Specialized immune cells near the nerve fibers of pigeons' livers break down red blood cells by accumulating iron. Apparently if birds are temporarily deprived of these cells they can no longer orient themselves in flight; therefore the iron in the liver may help find direction like a magnetic compass in addition to using the Sun as a navigation guide transmitting signals to the brain. Researchers are looking for these functions in other animals although other hypotheses and parameters such as distance and specific destination also need to be considered. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 29, 206 n°: 6267 Influence of the fossil industry on teaching The resources used for teaching in schools would be wholly or partially based on companies in industries that exploit fossil fuels, at least according to some researchers who point to the conflicts of interest of these companies being responsible for three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions. For decades it has been known about the strategies put in place to deny and minimize human-caused global warming, how to reduce the climate crisis that is causing extreme effects on the planet; so we should pay attention to how the funds for the training of students are disbursed and that the companies related to fossil fuels do not produce the material related to environmental science, then another relevant point concerns the impact on the teaching of artificial intelligence. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 24, 2025 n°: 5882 Whale song with linguistic human similarities Structural similarities have been found between whale song and human language, at least according to new studies that underline how whales, humpback especially, have something in their song that resembles and with parallels with common language. We are not at the point of being able to understand what these large cetaceans want to express with these prolonged vocalizations but it highlights a complex type of communication. There are also variations over the time because it is a kind of cultural transmission a bit like it happens between men, then analyzing the musical structure you can find the basic elements of a semantic connection. Studies in the past have found what can be called dialects that could distinguish the same species of whales and how these mammals adapted to variations in languages. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 10, 2025 n°: 5870 States that protect the neural privacy of the mind Neurotechnology companies are investing increasingly large sums to develop devices capable of interacting with the brain and California, Colorado and Chile have reportedly approved legislation to protect neural privacy. We are talking about a near future in which a wearable device for example triggers an advertisement suitable for satisfying a certain food desire or monitors the actions that are carried out and in the case of a fixed device we also come to hypothesize much more questionable cases. Brain data would be the next frontier of privacy and it is necessary to plan the sector with specific regulations that can protect this fundamental personal good; then it is necessary to take into account whether actions can be influenced by generative artificial intelligence or by applications that exploit neurotechnologies. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 16, 2024 n°: 5775 Forensic investigations influenced by climate change Entomologists use data that refer to the larval state of insects to understand what the time of a crime is and other typical characteristics related to the type of insects (a body may have been moved from a different place or moved and dragged even in different urban environments), but climate change can affect these detections making their task more difficult. For example it can happen to have very hot days followed by days with stable weather and then bad weather with cloudbursts and this makes everything more complicated for those who have to calculate schedules or compare reference models, then even if the consequences are generally not drastic still have to adapt to the new parameters dictated by climate change. The research should be adapted according to each specific regional climate including all the supporting surveys. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 24, 2024 n°: 5730 Questionable artificial imitation of the mind The groups that have developed the latest versions of generative artificial intelligence have tried to imitate the associative method used by the human mind from synapses with algorithms supported by sophisticated neural networks capable of memorizing and programming themselves automatically; but it's really questionable that what has worked out the natural evolution over hundreds of thousands of years is put into a machine in a few years or decades. If these artificial minds then entered the so-called "control rooms" or controlled the movements of humanoid robots it is difficult to hypothesize what they could do, taking into account for example that according to some the planet was saved by simple people who refused to launch nuclear missiles or managed to power reactors that risked melting down by sacrificing their lives. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 10, 2024 n°: 5539 Second-stage artificial intelligence The story of the departure of a group of artificial intelligence developers from one of the main development centers of the sector in the United States, who then almost immediately returned, could be linked according to some to different opinions about the launch of a second phase of generative artificial intelligence based on mathematics even less controllable by humans than the first version. If the first was already questionable due to the danger that its malicious use constitutes in diminishing for example the trust in institutions, weakening social cohesion and threatening "democracies" without neglecting the danger of the end of human civilization and transition to that of humanoids it is obvious that this second version can only greatly increase the level of alert on artificial intelligence and all neural networks in general. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 25, 2023 n°: 5503 Mind training  ... ^ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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