Practicing tai chi may also have cognitive benefits for older adults, research finds. MoMo Productions/Getty Images A study shows that people with type 2 diabetes-related mild cognitive impairment experienced a slowing of their cognitive decline after participating in Tai chi chuan sessions. The session lasted for 24 weeks, during which another group performed an equivalent amount...
People with MS who have sleep disorders notice more changes in their thinking Peer-Reviewed Publication MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN For women with multiple sclerosis who report cognitive dysfunction — one of the most common and disabling symptoms of the disease — sleep disorders such as insomnia and sleep apnea may contribute to the...
by New York University Trajectories of cognitive decline over time by baseline diabetes mellitus (DM) and edentulism status. Solid line, with neither condition; dashed line, with DM only; dashed and dotted line, with edentulism only; dotted line, with both conditions. Shaded areas are 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Estimated rates of cognitive decline: older adults aged...
Megan Brooks November 22, 2022 A new study provides more evidence that insomnia may contribute to cognitive decline in older adults and shows that difficulty falling asleep in midlife may be most indicative of future cognitive impairment. Investigators found that having trouble falling asleep on most nights (vs rarely/never) was equivalent to the effect of 2 to...
by The Ohio State University The authors analyzed data from 7,068 Americans who were part of a larger study that regularly measured their cognitive function from 1996 to 2016. Credit: mohamed_hassan, Pixabay, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) The risk factors linked to cognitive decline in older adults explain a surprisingly modest amount about the large variation in mental...
MCGILL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: A COMPARISON OF CORTICAL THICKNESS BETWEEN THE BRAINS OF OBESE PATIENTS TO THOSE WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. DARKER COLOURS INDICATE SIMILARITIES IN CORTICAL THICKNESS BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS. CREDIT: FILIP MORYS A new study led by scientists at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) of McGill University finds a correlation between neurodegeneration in obese...
by University of Southern California Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The human brain holds many clues about a person’s long-term health—in fact, research shows that a person’s brain age is a more useful and accurate predictor of health risks and future disease than their birthdate. Now, a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that analyzes magnetic resonance...
By Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc. Dec 5 2022 Reviewed by Aimee Molineux In a recent JAMA Neurology study, researchers report that consuming ultra-processed foods (UPFs) increases the risk of cognitive decline, particularly among middle-aged adults. Study: Association Between Consumption of Ultra-processed Foods and Cognitive Decline. Image Credit: Ekaterina Markelova / Shutterstock.com In 2019, dementia was estimated to affect about...
by Rutgers University MAIT cells express genes encoding secreted antioxidant molecules. Credit: Nature Immunology (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41590-022-01349-1 Could the underproduction of poorly understood immune cells contribute to Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of cognitive decline? A Rutgers study in Nature Immunology suggests it may—and that increasing these cells could reverse the damage. Rutgers researchers deactivated the gene that produces...
by University of Bristol Enhanced Ca2+ entry through L-type channels results in augmentation of currents underlying medium and slow AHPs in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons expressing 4R0N-tau. (Ai,Bi) Membrane current evoked following a depolarizing voltage step to + 10 mV (100 ms duration) in absence (black trace) and presence (gray trace) of nimodipine (10 μM) in cells expressing either EGFP only...
