Alzheimer’s disease

Train yourself to see the glass half full. Not only will you live longer, you’ll reduce your risk of dementia.  Researchers at University College London have shown that repetitive negative [...]

How can flossing your teeth reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s disease?  Samantha Brett and Ryan Phelan from Channel 7’s The Daily Edition asked Dr Helena to provide some answers. Here is a [...]

Following last week’s Health-e-Byte I received a lot of questions about the benefits of music in conditions other than dementia and Parkinson’s disease. It turns out that medicine may need to [...]

Listening to music always prompted my father to tell stories about significant events in his life – the first opera his mother took him to see when he was 8 years old; dining out with Mum [...]

Sun-speckled delicate beads of rain were trickling down our living room window when I noticed a vivid rainbow diving into the lake behind our house. ‘Hey Dad, come and see the rainbow!’ I called. [...]