Cognitive Deficits May Hinder Self Care in Patients with Heart Failure

By SharpBrains | July 3, 2012

Cog­ni­tive Deficits May Hin­der HF Self Care (Med­Page): — “Mild cog­ni­tive dys­func­tion may pre­vent patients with heart fail­ure from respond­ing appro­pri­ate­ly to wors­en­ing symp­toms, researchers found.” — “Among those (patients) with mild cog­ni­tive dys­func­tion, how­ev­er, a greater bur­den of symp­toms was asso­ci­at­ed with worse self care, she report­ed at the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Heart Failure…

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Building a Cognitive Reserve May Help Delay Multiple Sclerosis symptoms

By SharpBrains | June 15, 2010 |

Intel­lec­tu­al Enrich­ment Helped Pre­serve Mem­o­ry and Learn­ing in Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis Patients, Study Says (Web­MD) “A small study of mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis (MS) patients shows that main­tain­ing an intel­lec­tu­al­ly active lifestyle can help pre­serve learn­ing and mem­o­ry, even among patients with a high degree of brain dam­age.” “Although there’s no indi­ca­tion that being men­tal­ly engaged pro­tects against…

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