"Cognitive deterioration" refers to the decline or weakening of a person's mental abilities, such as memory, attention, problem-solving skills, and thinking abilities. It commonly occurs with age-related conditions like dementia or Alzheimer's disease.
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By starting cognitive training or some other therapy before the onset of cognitive decline, patients may be able to mitigate and possibly
reverse cognitive deterioration.
While you may not be able to do anything to prevent dementia, there are ways to start different mental strategies that allow us to improve cognitive reserve and compensate
for cognitive deterioration.
However, that is not always the case — mental stimulation can help to
reduce cognitive deterioration, especially in aging animals, making them healthier.
Among patients with 1 to 3 brain metastases, the use of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) alone, compared with SRS combined with whole brain radiotherapy, resulted in
less cognitive deterioration at 3 months, according to a study appearing in the July 26 issue of JAMA.
The researchers found that there was less
cognitive deterioration at 3 months after SRS alone (40/63 patients [64 percent]-RRB- than when combined with WBRT (44/48 patients [92 percent].
These findings may point towards an initial insult to cognitive function associated with epilepsy, rather than a
progressive cognitive deterioration as classically seen in CCD in dogs and dementia in humans.
The results of a study published in Neurology (2012; 79 - 17) showed that people who exercise regularly show fewer signs of brain - shrinkage and
other cognitive deterioration compared with those that have a more sedentary lifestyle.
Clinical signs of Alzheimer's disease are characterized by
progressive cognitive deterioration, together with declining activities of daily living and by neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes.
First, the study explains that people who speak more than one language have improved cognitive skills and suffer
less cognitive deterioration than their monolingual counterparts, especially when it comes to reading and writing.
«Smokers should be informed that cigarettes could hasten the thinning of the brain's cortex, which could lead to
cognitive deterioration.
Cognitive deterioration is becoming more and more common.
So, gout, kidney stones, and
cognitive deterioration.