FASTER, PLEASE: Asthma drug found to rejuvenate older rat brains. “As people grow older, cognitive abilities diminish, along with a decline in memory skills—that that has driven scientists to study aging and the brain and has led to the discovery that most of the decline is due to inflammation in the brain, which comes about when certain receptors are activated. In this new effort, the researchers looked at the drug montelukast because it lessens the problems associated with asthma by reducing inflammation in the lungs. They thought it might do the same for the brain.”