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Older adults’ real-time ratings of their mental sharpness closely tracked objective cognitive performance during everyday activities in a smartwatch-based study. The observational findings suggest potential utility for monitoring cognitive change but did not establish causality.

Three recent studies examined associations between vitamin D status and outcomes across type 2 diabetes risk, Alzheimer’s biomarkers, and inflammatory bowel disease in exploratory cohorts.

In a small neuroimaging substudy of children exposed to prenatal stress during Superstorm Sandy, stronger early adaptive skills were associated with limbic activation patterns resembling unexposed peers.

Brain MRI patterns differed enough between first and second pregnancies that a machine learning classifier could distinguish them, with the default mode network shift appearing to be a first-pregnancy-dominant adaptation.

Although gut microbes have become internet darlings, the evidence of their widespread importance in overall health continues to stack up.

“It’s not a case of cannabis being all good or all bad. It depends on how people are using it, what outcomes you’re looking at, what products are being used, for what reasons, and what part of the lifespan.” — Anika Guha, Ph.D., CU Anschutz