Science commentator Malvindar Singh-Bains joins Kathryn to talk about how memory performance and other cognitive abilities benefit from a good blood supply to the brain.
A recent study suggests that the passage of blood through a critical structure of the brain involved in memory, the hippocampus, could play a key role in age- and disease-related memory problems.
So how can we boost perfusion to the brain?
Malvindar Singh-Bains is a research fellow at the University of Auckland.
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