Never Too Fit for Body and Mind

Fit Body, Fit Mind?

I N B R I E F We are used to thinking of intelligence as largely a matter of genetic inheritance, but that is not the whole picture. What we do aff ects our mental wellbeing: staying physically and mentally active helps us stay sharp as we age. Nevertheless, our personal eff orts to bolster cognitive enhancement cannot forestall all declines in our cognitive performance. What is especially surp...

It's never too late for renewals!

Ondine's curse--never too late.

a normal life span. It has recently been shown that CCHS confers risk for adverse neurocognitive outcome [3]. Visuoperceptual reasoning and clerical/ visuographic speed appear particularly vulnerable. In this issue of IMAJ, Cohen-Cymberknoh and colleagues [4] present an interesting and unusual case of a 12 year old girl with late-onset CCHS that was suspected and diagnosed only after she failed...

Dementia risk reduction: it's never too early, it's never too late.

Never Too Early, Never Too Late: Effects of Search Timing on Product Innovation

A significant stream of research has emerged to study search (i.e., problem-solving) in organizations, and several insights have been discovered through this work. One is that firms search close to their current knowledge-bases (Nelson and Winter, 1982), and that searching further than that is rare and risky (Katila, 2002). Another is that successful search often combines knowledge that is know...