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Complex occupations help protect our brains from aging-related cognitive decline

December 15, 2021 by SharpBrains

Cog­ni­tive aging: Work helps our brain (AAAS):

A recent study shows that work plays an active role in keep­ing our brains healthy. “We have demon­strat­ed the role of work­ing activ­i­ty on cog­ni­tive per­for­mance”. Pro­fes­sor Raf­fael­la Rumiati says … “Many stud­ies have been focused on the fac­tors influ­enc­ing our brain aging and dif­fer­ences in cog­ni­tive decline have been often observed in asso­ci­a­tion with edu­ca­tion or oth­er relat­ed to qual­i­ty of life. From our analy­sis it emerges that the type of work activ­i­ty also con­tributes to the dif­fer­ences in nor­mal and patho­log­i­cal cog­ni­tive aging”. [Read more…] about Com­plex occu­pa­tions help pro­tect our brains from aging-relat­ed cog­ni­tive decline

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: aging, brain-aging, cognition, cognitive, Cognitive Aging, cognitive decline, cognitive-performance, Education & Lifelong Learning, neuropsychological-tests, occupation, protective factors, working

Six guidelines to navigate the Aduhelm controversy and (hopefully) help patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and early-stage Alzheimer’s Disease

October 13, 2021 by Kaiser Health News

The approval of a con­tro­ver­sial new drug for Alzheimer’s dis­ease, Aduhelm, is shin­ing a spot­light on mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment — prob­lems with mem­o­ry, atten­tion, lan­guage or oth­er cog­ni­tive tasks that exceed changes expect­ed with nor­mal aging.

After ini­tial­ly indi­cat­ing that Aduhelm could be pre­scribed to any­one with demen­tia, the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion now spec­i­fies that the pre­scrip­tion drug be giv­en to indi­vid­u­als with mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment or ear­ly-stage Alzheimer’s, the groups in which the med­ica­tion was studied.

Yet this nar­row­er rec­om­men­da­tion rais­es ques­tions. What does a diag­no­sis of mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment mean? Is Aduhelm appro­pri­ate for all peo­ple with mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment, or only some? And who should decide which patients qual­i­fy for treat­ment: demen­tia spe­cial­ists or pri­ma­ry care physi­cians? [Read more…] about Six guide­lines to nav­i­gate the Aduhelm con­tro­ver­sy and (hope­ful­ly) help patients with Mild Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment and ear­ly-stage Alzheimer’s Disease

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Aduhelm, Alzheimer’s Disease, attention-problems, brain bleeding, brain swelling, cognitive problems, dementia, dementia specialists, early-stage Alzheimer’s, Food and Drug Administration, language problems, memory problems, mild-cognitive-impairment, neuropsychological, neuropsychological-tests, normal cognition, primary care physicians, tests

Cognitive training, diet, exercise, and vascular management seen to improve cognition even in people with genetic predisposition for dementia (APOE e4)

May 7, 2018 by SharpBrains

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How do genet­ics impact ear­ly inter­ven­tion for demen­tia? (Med­ical News Bulletin):

“Car­dio­vas­cu­lar and neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­eases, such as demen­tia, have been linked to dys­func­tion of a vari­a­tion of the apolipopro­tein E, or APOE, gene, called the APOE e4 allele…The Finnish Geri­atric Inter­ven­tion Study to Pre­vent Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment and Dis­abil­i­ty (FINGER) eval­u­at­ed whether the effec­tive­ness of lifestyle mod­i­fi­ca­tions for those at risk of Alzheimer’s dis­ease would be dif­fer­ent for those with or with­out the APOE e4 gene. [Read more…] about Cog­ni­tive train­ing, diet, exer­cise, and vas­cu­lar man­age­ment seen to improve cog­ni­tion even in peo­ple with genet­ic pre­dis­po­si­tion for demen­tia (APOE e4)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: APOE, APOE ε4 allele, apolipoprotein E, at risk, cardiovascular, cognition, Cognitive-impairment, Cognitive-Training, dementia, diet, exercise, FINGER, neuropsychological, neuropsychological-tests, Prevent Cognitive Impairment, vascular management

Study: Harnessing a virtual reality brain training game to diagnose mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

January 15, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Vir­tu­al real­i­ty brain train­ing game can detect mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment, a con­di­tion that often pre­dates Alzheimer’s dis­ease (press release):

“Geek researchers demon­strat­ed the poten­tial of a vir­tu­al super­mar­ket cog­ni­tive train­ing game as a screen­ing tool for patients with mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment (MCI) among a sam­ple of old­er adults…

In an arti­cle pub­lished in the Jour­nal of Alzheimer’s Dis­ease, the researchers [Read more…] about Study: Har­ness­ing a vir­tu­al real­i­ty brain train­ing game to diag­nose mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment (MCI)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimers-disease, Brain-Training, brain-training-game, cognitive training game, cognitive--disorders, Cognitive-impairment, Cognitive-Training, mild-cognitive-impairment, neuropsychological, neuropsychological-tests, virtual-reality

CEO of Cambridge Cognition to speak at 2013 SharpBrains Summit

June 14, 2013 by SharpBrains

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Ruth Frances Keir runs Cam­bridge Cog­ni­tion (AIM: COG), one of the 10 Com­pa­nies to Watch in 2013/ 2014 accord­ing to our lat­est mar­ket report, which devel­ops and com­mer­cial­izes com­put­erised neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal tests used in a vari­ety of health­care and research set­tings. She joined the Cam­bridge Cog­ni­tion board ini­tial­ly in 2010 as a non-exec­u­tive direc­tor, bring­ing to it more than 26 years’ expe­ri­ence in research and busi­ness devel­op­ment posi­tions in the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­try, as well as a peri­od as Direc­tor of her own con­sul­tan­cy busi­ness, Archea Ltd.

–> To Learn More and Reg­is­ter, click on 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit: Sep­tem­ber 19–20th, 2013

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Cambridge Cognition, neuropsychological, neuropsychological-tests, Pfizer

Cambridge Cognition, developer of computerised neuropsychological tests, to go public in the UK

March 25, 2013 by SharpBrains

cantabmobileCam­bridge Cog­ni­tion, one of the 10 Com­pa­nies to Watch in 2013/ 2014 accord­ing to our lat­est mar­ket report, just announced its plans to go pub­lic in the UK’s AIM market.

Cam­bridge Cog­ni­tion in £15M AIM IPO (Busi­ness Week­ly): “… the move will [Read more…] about Cam­bridge Cog­ni­tion, devel­op­er of com­put­erised neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal tests, to go pub­lic in the UK

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Cambridge Cognition, CANTABeclipse, CANTABelect, CANTABmobile, computerised neuropsychological tests, neuropsychological-tests

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