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Study: Moderate lifetime drinking may lead to lower Alzheimer-related beta amyloid deposits in the brain

March 27, 2020 by SharpBrains

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Mod­er­ate drink­ing tied to low­er lev­els of Alzheimer’s brain pro­tein (Busi­ness Standard):

“Kore­an researchers stud­ied 414 men and women, aver­age age 71, who were free of demen­tia or alco­hol-relat­ed dis­or­ders. All under­went phys­i­cal exams, tests of men­tal acu­ity, and positron emis­sion tomog­ra­phy (PET) and mag­net­ic res­o­nance imag­ing (MRI) scans. They were care­ful­ly inter­viewed about their drink­ing habits.

The study, in PLOS Med­i­cine, mea­sured drink­ing in “stan­dard drinks” — 12 ounces of beer, five ounces of wine, or one-and-a-half ounces of hard liquor. Com­pared with abstain­ers, those who drank one to 13 stan­dard drinks a week had a 66 per cent low­er rate of beta amy­loid deposits in their brains. [Read more…] about Study: Mod­er­ate life­time drink­ing may lead to low­er Alzheimer-relat­ed beta amy­loid deposits in the brain

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimer-disease, Alzheimers, beer, beta amyloid deposits, brain protein, dementia, hard liquor, mental acuity, moderate drinking, MRI, neurodegeneration, PET, wine

Trend: With 25% of US physicians aged 65+, hospitals test older doctors on mental and physical acuity

June 28, 2017 by SharpBrains

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When Are Doc­tors Too Old to Prac­tice? (The Wall Street Journal):

“In Feb­ru­ary, Robert Brown received an email that left him trou­bled. The New Jer­sey hos­pi­tal where the 71-year-old pedi­a­tri­cian was prac­tic­ing informed him that doc­tors age 72 and old­er would have to take a test to assess their phys­i­cal and men­tal health—or risk los­ing their priv­i­leges [Read more…] about Trend: With 25% of US physi­cians aged 65+, hos­pi­tals test old­er doc­tors on men­tal and phys­i­cal acuity

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: ageism, cognitive-decline, cost of care, dementia, doctors, fairness, hospitals, medical, medical workforce, mental acuity, mortality, older, physical acuity, physician age, physicians, readmissions

To maintain lifelong mental acuity, avoid early retirement and repetitive jobs

October 30, 2015 by SharpBrains

retirement_roadThis is your brain on retire­ment — not near­ly as sharp, stud­ies are find­ing (The Wash­ing­ton Post):

“Retir­ing at 55 and spend­ing the rest of your life relax­ing on the front porch may sound appeal­ing, but if you want your brain to keep work­ing, it’s prob­a­bly not a good idea. Mount­ing evi­dence shows that stay­ing in the work­force into old age is good not only for our bank accounts, but also for our health and men­tal acu­ity [Read more…] about To main­tain life­long men­tal acu­ity, avoid ear­ly retire­ment and repet­i­tive jobs

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain, brain-function, cognitive abililty, cognitive-development, cognitive-function, cognitive-performance, crossword-puzzles, health, mental acuity, old-age, retirement, workforce

Want to train your brain? Work as a physician, air traffic controller, financial analyst (or similar)

April 7, 2014 by SharpBrains

Brain Firing NeuronsMen­tal­ly stim­u­lat­ing jobs keep your mind sharp post-retire­ment (Tech Times):

“If you want to stay sharp in your gold­en years, it’s best to get the hard yards in ear­ly — a new study has found that peo­ple with men­tal­ly demand­ing jobs fare bet­ter in the years after retirement.…Mental acu­ity and mem­o­ry reten­tion was found to be high­er in retirees who had spent their careers in men­tal­ly stim­u­lat­ing roles, such as [Read more…] about Want to train your brain? Work as a physi­cian, air traf­fic con­troller, finan­cial ana­lyst (or similar)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance Tagged With: analyzing, cognitive-abilities, cognitive-decline, cognitive-functioning, creativity, jobs, memory retention, mental acuity, problem-solving, retirement, thinking

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