Alzheimer’s Disease

Here  you have Sharp­Brains’ 5 most pop­u­lar arti­cles on the brain, cog­ni­tion and Alzheimer’s Dis­ease since 2006. Remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to our free month­ly Newslet­ter to receive new articles.

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1.	Alzheimer’s Ear­ly and Accu­rate Diag­no­sis: Nor­mal Aging vs. Alzheimer’s Disease - By Dr. Murali Moraiswamy Jane, fifty-sev­en, man­aged a large sales force. She prid­ed her­self on being good at names, and intro­duc­tions were easy for her until last spring when she referred to Bar­bara as Bet­ty at a meet­ing and had to cor­rect her­self. She start­ed notic­ing that her mem­o­ry was­n’t as depend­able as it once was she had to real­ly try to remem­ber names and dates. Her moth­er had devel­oped Alzheimer’s in her late sev­en­ties, so Jane […]
2.	Edu­ca­tion builds Cog­ni­tive Reserve for Alzheimers Dis­ease Protection - By Dr. Pas­cale Michelon The cog­ni­tive reserve hypoth­e­sis, test­ed in mul­ti­ple stud­ies, states that indi­vid­u­als with more cog­ni­tive reserve can expe­ri­ence more Alzheimer’s dis­ease pathol­o­gy in the brain (more plaques and tan­gles) with­out developing […]
3.	Alzheimer’s Dis­ease: too seri­ous to play with headlines - By Alvaro Fernandez We just came across an arti­cle titled Best Com­put­er “Brain Games” for Senior Cit­i­zens to Delay Alzheimer’s Dis­ease. The head­line makes lit­tle sci­en­tif­ic sense-and we observe this con­fu­sion often. The arti­cle men­tions a few pro­grams we have dis­cussed often in this blog, such as Posit Sci­ence and Mind­Fit, and oth­ers we haven’t because we haven’t found any published […]
4.	Brain Health and Alzheimer’s disease - By Car­o­line Latham Stud­ies have shown men­tal­ly active peo­ple have low­er rates and lat­er onset of symp­toms for Alzheimer’s dis­ease and oth­er forms of demen­tia. These dis­eases involve a num­ber of vari­ables like fam­i­ly his­to­ry, phys­i­cal fit­ness, nutri­tion, and brain fit­ness. Peo­ple who remain intel­lec­tu­al­ly active and engage in hob­bies reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s dis­ease by one third.[…]
5.	Cog­ni­tive Health and Train­ing News - By Alvaro Fernandez Sev­er­al recent news (includ­ing video of our recent pan­el discussion): 1) Study Finds Improved Cog­ni­tive Health among Old­er Amer­i­cans (Jour­nal of the Alzheimer’s Association) — “Soci­etal invest­ment in build­ing and main­tain­ing cog­ni­tive reserve through for­mal edu­ca­tion in child­hood and con­tin­ued cog­ni­tive stim­u­la­tion dur­ing work and leisure in adult­hood may help lim­it the bur­den of demen­tia among the growing […]