They were also asked if they were concerned
about this memory decline.
Not exact matches
We spoke with Neurotrack CEO Elli Kaplan, whose company recently launched an online assessment that helps people understand the state of their
memory health, to learn
about some of the ways you can potentially decrease your risk for Alzheimer's and cognitive
decline more broadly.
To find out more
about what underlies the cognitive
decline that occurs with ageing, André Fischer of the European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen, Germany, and colleagues analysed DNA from the brains of both young and old mice that had been set tasks involving learning and
memory.
In fact, while cognitive processes do
decline with age, simply reminding older adults
about ageist ideas actually exacerbates their
memory problems, reveals important new research from the USC Davis School of Gerontology.
The researchers, who published their work online November 5 in Nature, are now investigating just how long the improvement might last and how deep sleep affects
memory — for some reason, humans begin to lose the ability to sleep deeply around 40 years of age, at
about the same time that
memory begins to
decline.
For reasons that remain unclear, humans begin to lose the ability to sleep deeply around 40 years of age, at
about the same time that
memory begins to
decline, he notes.
Results show that in comparison to women who experienced menopause after the age of 50, those with a premature menopause had a more than 40 % increased risk of poor performance on tasks assessing verbal fluency and visual
memory and was associated with a 35 % increased risk of
decline in psychomotor speed (coordination between the brain and the muscles that brings
about movement) and overall cognitive function over 7 years.
Interestingly, the first complaints of
memory decline occurred on an average of six years before mild cognitive impairment (a condition that sometimes, but not always, progresses to dementia) was diagnosed, and
about nine years before dementia was diagnosed.
First, the bad news: Your
memory speed naturally
declines by
about 2 percent each decade, starting in your late 20s.
If you'd like to learn more
about Alzheimer's disease as «type 3 diabetes» and the potential therapeutic use of ketones and the ketogenic diet, consider exploring my book, The Alzheimer's Antidote: Using a Low - Carb, High - Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer's Disease,
Memory Loss, and Cognitive
Decline.
Dr. Masley developed a program that can reverse insulin resistance and stop cognitive
decline before it's too late.He writes
about it in his new book, The Better Brain Solution: How to Start Now — At Any Age — to Reverse and Prevent Insulin Resistance of the Brain, Sharpen Cognitive Function, and Avoid
Memory Loss.
Andersson describes the work as not being
about «nostalgia or
memories, but of
decline and desolation».