Megan Brooks New data from the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) suggest that a daily multivitamin may help protect the aging brain. However, at least one expert has concerns about the study’s methodology and, as a result, the interpretation of its findings. The meta-analysis of three separate cognition studies provides “strong and consistent...
Tag: <span>Cognition</span>
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Abdominal fat depots can impact brain health and cognition in individuals at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease
by Rutgers University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe impact of abdominal fat on brain health and cognition is generally more pronounced in middle-aged men at high risk of Alzheimer’s disease than in women, according to researchers at Rutgers Health. In middle-aged individuals with a family history of Alzheimer’s disease, the amount of fat in their abdominal organs...
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Investigating the impact of auditory beat stimulation on cognition
by Center for BrainHealth Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research conducted by the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas investigates the impact of binaural beat (BB) on language skills. BB is a sound that occurs when two slightly mismatched pure tones are heard. There is a growing interest in using BB...
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Cocoa extract supplement found to have benefits for cognition among older adults with lower diet quality
Peer-Reviewed Publication MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM WHO: Mass General Brigham researchers, Dr. Chirag Vyas and Dr. Olivia I. Okereke at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Howard Sesso and Dr. JoAnn Manson at Brigham and Women’s Hospital WHAT: Cocoa extract has shown a potential protective effect on cognition but randomized clinical trials in older adults have had...
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Older adults may achieve same cognition as undergrads, shows new study
by J. D. Warren, University of California – Riverside Cognitive composite scores from Study 1 and Study 2. The dotted lines represent the means of cross-sectional convenience samples of younger (n = 28, Mage = 19.07 years, SDage = 1.05, range: 18–22), middle-aged (n = 22, Mage = 42.36 years, SDage = 5.79, range: 35–51), and older adults (n = 43, Mage = 70.17 years, SDage = 9.34, range: 53–89). The...
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More Evidence Flavanols in Tea, Fruit, and Veg Preserve Memory, Cognition
Eve Bender November 28, 2022 Consumption of flavonols may preserve memory and cognition over time, new research suggests. Three specific components of flavonols in particular — kaempferol, myricetin, and quercetin — were associated with slower global cognitive decline. Dr Thomas Holland “It is never too early, or too late, to start making healthy lifestyle changes, especially when it comes...
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Vitamins or Cocoa: Which Preserves Cognition?
Kelli Whitlock Burton September 14, 2022 Unexpected results from a phase 3 trial exploring the effect of multivitamins and cognition have now been published. Findings from a phase 3 study show daily multivitamin use, but not cocoa, is linked to a significantly slower rate of age-related cognitive decline. Originally presented last November at the 14th...
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Brain Resiliency: When Boxers Retire, Cognition and Memory Improve
Megan Brooks September 16, 2022 Boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters can recover cognitive and memory skills after they retire from fighting, results of a longitudinal study show. Dr Aaron Ritter “What is most exciting about the findings is that it shows us brain resiliency in action,” Aaron Ritter, MD, associate staff, neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology,...
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How the brain develops: a new way to shed light on cognition
A new study introduces a new neurocomputational model of the human brain that could shed light on how the brain develops complex cognitive abilities and advance neural artificial intelligence research. The study was carried out by an international group of researchers from the Institut Pasteur and Sorbonne Université in Paris, the CHU Sainte-Justine, Mila –...
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Two Diets Linked to Improved Cognition, Fatigue in MS
Nancy A. Melville ORLANDO, Florida — A Paleolithic elimination diet (Wahls diet) or a low-saturated fat diet (Swank diet) are associated with improved cognition, among other clinical outcomes, in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), new research suggests. In a randomized study of patients with RRMS, the group that followed a Wahls diet and the group that followed a...