Posts Tagged ‘memory-decline’
Education AND Lifelong Cognitive Activities build Cognitive Reserve and Delay Memory Loss
In a recently published scientific study (see Hall C, et al “Cognitive activities delay onset of memory decline in persons who develop dementia” Neurology 2009; 73: 356–361), Hall and colleagues examined how education and stimulating activities may interact to contribute to cognitive reserve. The study involved 488 initially healthy people, average age 79, who enrolled…
Read MoreWhat You Can do to Improve Memory (and Why It Deteriorates in Old Age)
After about age 50, most people begin to experience a decline in memory capability. Why is that? One obvious answer is that the small arteries of the brain begin to clog up, often as a result of a lifetime of eating the wrong things and a lack of exercise. If that lifetime has been stressful,…
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