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After witnessing my mum's cognitive decline and with dementia now the leading cause of death for Australian women, I can't help but wonder: Will I be among them? I started noticing changes when my mum ...
Cognitive reserve is a concept that has piqued researchers' interest since the 1980s for its potential to buffer against cognitive decline due to aging or ...
A 14-month randomized trial in older African American adults with obesity found that adopting a Mediterranean diet, with or ...
A viral article claimed that the Department of Transportation would instate new tests for drivers aged 70 and older. But is ...
A major study suggests that smoking could be one of the most powerful lifestyle habits affecting how quickly our thinking skills decline with age. The research, led by scientists at University College ...
Older adults with epilepsy (≥50 years) are at an increased risk for cognitive impairment and dementia, a challenge that spans two main clinical groups. The ...
“I took a cognitive test. And I don’t know what to tell you, other than I got every answer right,” Trump told reporters following his exams.
Nikki Haley, Trump’s former U.N. ambassador who challenged him in the 2024 GOP primary, called for cognitive tests for politicians older than 75. “To most Americans, this is common sense.
When they made small changes to the CaMKII protein to copy the changes that happen in older brains, the mice started having trouble with learning and memory tasks—just like aging humans often do.
Today, there are 50 million people who have dementia worldwide, that is a new case every3 seconds and more than 152 million cases expected in 2050. Aging-related morbidity is a real social problem ...
Age-appropriate cognitive assessments have been done at five points, so far. The team found that looking at cognitive tests in infancy could predict about 13% of the variance in scores at age 30. Two ...