Motherhood may make women smarter and help prevent Alzheimer’s by bathing the brain in protective hormones. Tests on rats show that the ones who raise two or more litters of pups do better in tests of memory and skills than rats who have no babies. Their brains also show changes that suggest they may be protected against Alzheimer’s.

“Our research shows that the hormones of pregnancy are protecting the brain, including estrogen, which we know has many neuroprotective effects,” says researcher Craig Kinsley. “When people think about pregnancy, they think about what happens to infants and the mother from the neck down. They do not realize that hormones are washing on the brain.?
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Schizophrenia could be the result of differences in the structure of the spine. Past theories about the disease speculate that it’s caused by abnormal brain chemistry or defects in the development of brain pathways. Now researchers have discovered that the part of the spine that is inside the brains of schizophrenics is smaller and abnormally shaped. William Greenough says, “It’s a maladaptive change that would alter the way neurons communicate.”
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Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is alive and planning more terrorist attacks around the world, according to Richard Nobel, the head of Interpol. He says, ”Intelligence experts all agree that right now al-Qaeda is preparing a high-profile terrorist operation, with attacks targeting not just the U.S. but several countries at the same time. The battlefield now spreads across every country and mobilizes several terrorist groups?Sleeper cells are in place, unknown to the police, who are ready to act from one day to the next.”
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