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Study: Cognitive deficits continue long term in cancer survivors in domains important for social and executive functioning

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elderly_senior_memory_loss_confusionCog­ni­tive Deficits Con­tin­ue Long Term in Can­cer Sur­vivors (Med­scape):

“Although can­cer patients fre­quent­ly expe­ri­ence short-term cog­ni­tive deficits, lit­tle is known about how long these deficits last or whether they wors­en over time. Now, data from a large nation­al sam­ple sug­gest that cog­ni­tive deficits may per­sist long term. [Read more…] about Study: Cog­ni­tive deficits con­tin­ue long term in can­cer sur­vivors in domains impor­tant for social and exec­u­tive functioning

Study points to growing cognitive gap between high-volume TV watchers and infrequent watchers

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watching tv adultToo Much TV And Chill Could Reduce Brain Pow­er Over Time (NPR):

“Researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San Fran­cis­co checked in with 3,247 peo­ple for 25 years, start­ing when they were young adults…People who got lit­tle exer­cise or watched at least three hours of TV a day did worse [Read more…] about Study points to grow­ing cog­ni­tive gap between high-vol­ume TV watch­ers and infre­quent watchers

Occupational therapy study: Improving processing speed seen as key target to help patients with multiple sclerosis

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Decreased Activ­i­ty Lev­els in MS Patients Linked To Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment (Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis News):

“A new study pub­lished in the Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Occu­pa­tion­al Ther­a­py assessed the cog­ni­tive fac­tors affect­ed in mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis patients con­cern­ing their activ­i­ty and par­tic­i­pa­tion in every­day life [Read more…] about Occu­pa­tion­al ther­a­py study: Improv­ing pro­cess­ing speed seen as key tar­get to help patients with mul­ti­ple sclerosis

Study: High television viewing and low physical activity can significantly worsen long-term cognitive function

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Too much TV, low phys­i­cal activ­i­ty may wors­en cog­ni­tive func­tion (Med­ical News Today):

“The team’s study includ­ed more than 3,200 adults aged 18–30…Over 25 years, the researchers record­ed par­tic­i­pants’ tele­vi­sion view­ing time and phys­i­cal activ­i­ty levels…In the study, high tele­vi­sion view­ing was defined as more than 4 hours dai­ly, while low phys­i­cal activ­i­ty was defined as [Read more…] about Study: High tele­vi­sion view­ing and low phys­i­cal activ­i­ty can sig­nif­i­cant­ly wors­en long-term cog­ni­tive function

Brain training works: Study finds 10-year benefit from 10-hour training

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Brain TrainingBrain train­ing helped old­er adults stay sharp for years ‑study (Reuters):

Monitoring cognition via mobile applications: iPad app analyzed

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We recent­ly came across a fas­ci­nat­ing sci­en­tif­ic study, titled Exam­in­ing cog­ni­tive func­tion across the lifes­pan using a mobile appli­ca­tion (Com­put­ers in Human Behav­ior), which stud­ied the val­ue and lim­i­ta­tions of using an iPad app called “brain­base­line.”

Abstract: “Many stud­ies con­duct­ed in a lab­o­ra­to­ry or uni­ver­si­ty set­ting are lim­it­ed by fund­ing, per­son­nel, space, and time con­straints. In the present study, [Read more…] about Mon­i­tor­ing cog­ni­tion via mobile appli­ca­tions: iPad app analyzed