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Top health-science stories: Peanut butter detects Alzheimers; novels change brain



Nevil Gibson
Tue, 07 Jan 2014

The two top US university health-science stories of 2013 involved a dollop of peanut butter and a ruler to confirm a diagnosis of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease and evidence that reading a novel changes the brain..

Jennifer Stamps, a graduate student in the McKnight Brain Institute Centre

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Nevil Gibson
Tue, 07 Jan 2014
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Top health-science stories: Peanut butter detects Alzheimers; novels change brain
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