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…

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Buyer 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…

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Next: 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.

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Given 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.

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Study: 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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