Posts Tagged ‘cognitive decline’
Study with 330 centenarians finds that cognitive decline is not inevitable
Age-Related Cognitive Decline May Not Be Inevitable (WebMD): It is often assumed that a decrease in memory and brain function are inevitable parts of aging, but a new study of centenarians suggests otherwise. Investigators found that despite the presence of neurological issues generally associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), many centenarians maintained high levels of cognitive…
Read MoreStudy: Artificial intelligence program identifies linguistic markers that predict, with 70% accuracy, who gets Alzheimer’s Disease years later
Alzheimer’s Prediction May Be Found in Writing Tests (The New York Times): … the researchers looked at a group of 80 men and women in their 80s — half had Alzheimer’s and the others did not. But, seven and a half years earlier, all had been cognitively normal.
Read MoreBuyer beware: The story of a pricey and “credentialled” program to end Alzheimer’s Disease
When her husband was diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease in 2015, Elizabeth Pan was devastated by the lack of options to slow his inevitable decline. But she was encouraged when she discovered the work of a UCLA neurologist, Dr. Dale Bredesen, who offered a comprehensive lifestyle management program to halt or even reverse cognitive decline…
Read MoreNext: Analyzing typing speed, speech and sleep patterns to identify cognitive decline, dementia, Parkinson’s, and more
AI May Help Identify Patients With Early-Stage Dementia (The Wall Street Journal): Researchers are studying whether artificial-intelligence tools that analyze things like typing speed, sleep patterns and speech can be used to help clinicians better identify patients with early-stage dementia.
Read MoreGiven cognitive strengths and needs are diverse, what brain training may work best for each person and under which conditions?
Does ‘Brain Training’ Actually Work? (Scientific American): If there were an app on your phone that could improve your memory, would you try it? Who wouldn’t want a better memory? After all, our recollections are fragile and can be impaired by diseases, injuries, mental health conditions and, most acutely for all of us, aging.
Read MoreStudy: Elders today are in significantly better shape–physically and cognitively–than three decades ago
Older people have become younger: physical and cognitive function have improved meaningfully in 30 years (University of Jyväskylä release): The functional ability of older people is nowadays better when it is compared to that of people at the same age three decades ago. This was observed in a study conducted at the Faculty of Sport…
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