Sentences with phrase «early cognitive impairment»

The earliest cognitive impairment manifests at 4 months as a deficit in long - term retention and correlates with the accumulation of intraneuronal Abeta in the hippocampus and amygdala.

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Family medical history (for both you and your partner), including any cognitive impairments; birth defects; early infant loss; deformities; or any inherited diseases, such as Tay - Sachs disease, hemophilia, muscular dystrophy, or cystic fibrosis

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Understanding deficit patterns very early, particularly speech and language delays, cognitive - intellectual deficits, sensory - motor impairments and a rough estimate of the «stage of psychological development or trauma» will help plot out the most appropriate treatment interventions.

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

Now, researchers in The Netherlands have coupled machine learning methods with a special MRI technique that measures the perfusion, or tissue absorption rate, of blood throughout the brain to detect early forms of dementia, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

Northwestern University's Ken Paller is already administering this type of stimulation to middle - aged adults with mild cognitive impairment, often an early indicator of Alzheimer's disease.

Physicians have no definitive way of identifying who has early dementia or which cases of mild cognitive impairment will progress to Alzheimer's disease.

This can result in a serious genetic disease that can cause anemia, neuro - cognitive impairment, and even early death,» says the study's lead - author, Dr. Jean - Louis Guéant, director of the Inserm unit of Nutrition - Genetics - Environmental Risks at University of Lorraine and head of the Department of Molecular Medicine and Personalized Therapeutics — National Center of Inborn Errors of Metabolism at the University Regional Hospital of Nancy.

People with sleep apnea, for example, a condition in which people repeatedly stop breathing at night, are at risk for developing mild cognitive impairment an average of 10 years earlier than people without the sleep disorder.

Mild cognitive impairment is an early warning sign for Alzheimer's disease.

Postoperative cognitive impairments may arise early on after surgery, such as the short - lasting, but still distressful postoperative emergence agitation (EA).

Next up: the team plans to study whether human patients with early stage Alzheimer's or a mild cognitive impairment experience this same nonconvulsive seizure activity.

The tool could pave the way for early interventions that prevent and treat a range of physical, psychological, social, and cognitive impairments.

Thirty - year trajectories show Alzheimer's stages in patient brains: healthy state (HC), early / late mild cognitive impairment (E / LMCI) and late - onset Alzheimer's (LOAD).

The high prevalence of OSA the study found in these cognitively normal elderly participants and the link between OSA and amyloid burden in these very early stages of AD pathology, the researchers believe, suggest the CPAP, dental appliances, positional therapy and other treatments for sleep apnea could delay cognitive impairment and dementia in many older adults.

This will be of particular benefit to those people who have mild cognitive impairments, for example older people who are still physically healthy but may have early symptoms of dementia.»

A 2010 study by William Jarrold, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Davis, suggests that an automated system that analyzes speech patterns on phone calls can potentially pick up on cognitive impairment and clinical depression or determine if someone is in the very early stages of Alzheimer's.

«Early detection of individuals at high risk of developing memory and thinking problems that we call mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is crucial because people with MCI are at a greater risk of developing dementia.

However, less is known about whether early transient hypoglycemia, frequently considered to be a normal physiological phenomenon with no serious consequences, is associated with cognitive impairment.

As the effect was shown in young adults, it adds to growing evidence that the cognitive impairments that accompany obesity may be present early in adult life.

In Alzheimer's disease, this loss of synapses occurs very early on, when people still only have mild cognitive impairment, and long before the nerve cells themselves die.

The trial included 56 participants who had suffered mild traumatic brain injury one to five years earlier and were still bothered by headaches, difficulty concentrating, irritability, and other cognitive impairments.

«This knowledge may help identify those persons with TBI who need early intervention because they are at greater risk for cognitive impairment.

The middle and inferior temporal gyri, for example, also play roles in memory and sensory integration and have been shown to be involved in the early stages of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

Conducting a cross-sectional study of a large cohort of patients with different levels of cognitive impairment and different disease stages, the researchers found that the amounts of a TREM2 fragment in the cerebrospinal fluid were highest during early stages characterized by mild cognitive impairment symptoms.

Also, research in other animal models, such as rodents, has shown anesthesia exposure early in life can lead to cell death in the brain and cognitive impairments.

«The next step would be to look at these same sorts of tasks and see whether or not it could predict individuals who are beginning to show early signs of cognitive impairment, such as early signs of Alzheimer's disease,» Mewborn said.

Brain imaging using radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer's disease that may predict future cognitive decline among adults with mild or no cognitive impairment, according to a 36 - month follow - up study led by Duke Medicine.

The ambitious goal: to learn to identify early signs of trauma - induced brain damage from subtle changes in blood chemistry, brain imaging, and performance tests — changes that may show up decades before visible symptoms such as cognitive impairment, depression, and impulsive behavior.

A year earlier, researchers at the University of Montreal identified a Shank3 mutation in patients suffering from schizophrenia, which is characterized by hallucinations, cognitive impairment, and abnormal social behavior.

Mild cognitive impairment sets in at a median age of 44 in people carrying the mutation, and full - blown dementia at 49, decades earlier than is common with the more typical sporadic form of the disease.

Dr. Ding's team enrolled older patients at high risk to develop Alzheimer's disease who have early signs of memory loss, or mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

In some ways, hAPP mice better model the earlier mild cognitive impairment stage of AD (MCI - AD) than the dementia stage (10).

This can result in a serious genetic disease that can cause anemia, neuro - cognitive impairment, and even early death,» says the study's lead - author, Dr. Jean - Louis Guéant, director of the Inserm unit of Nutrition - Genetics - Environmental Risks at University of Lorraine and head of the Department of Molecular Medicine and Personalized Therapeutics - National Center of Inborn Errors of Metabolism at the University Regional Hospital of Nancy.

Earlier findings from the FINGER trial have shown that the regular lifestyle counselling group had a significantly increased risk of cognitive and functional impairment compared to the intervention group, i.e. the group receiving enhanced counselling.

During this time, 28 people developed Alzheimer's or mild cognitive impairment, thought to be the earliest noticeable sign of several types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

She enrolls and manages patients on several trials including: the A4 prevention trial, the BAN20401 study for patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and very early Alzheimer's Disease, the NOBLE Study and theExpedition 3 study.

Abstract: While behavioral symptoms are both early and prevalent features of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), they can be present in other types of dementia as well, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and even mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

While behavioral symptoms are both early and prevalent features of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), they can be present in other types of dementia as well, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and even mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

For example, using a transgenic marmoset model of Alzheimer's disease, clinicians and basic researchers are working together to identify the changes in the brain's circuitry during mild cognitive impairment and very early stages of Alzheimer's.

The fact that cognitive impairments were seen at the pre-plaque stage, where Aβ could be detected intraneuronally (by IHC) and in CSF (by MALDI - MS), suggests that a combination of intraneuronal and soluble extracellular Aβ may be responsible for impairing neuronal function at early time points.

In the present study, we assessed changes in the SRE and SRP - related brain activity in patients diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment or early Alzheimer's disease (MCI / AD).

Another result of the Emory - Georgia Tech collaboration is DETECT, a portable device capable of detecting the earliest stage of Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, in any environment.

The operationalization of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) led to targeting earlier symptomatic cases of the illness and treatment strategies based less on pathology and more on a chance to halt or slow decline than there would be earlier in the disease.1 With the development of amyloid imaging, MCI due to AD diagnosis was refined, 2 and early - stage AD was extended further to include preclinical AD, 3 wherein a positive amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scan or diagnostic low levels of cerebrospinal fluid β - amyloid (Aβ) indicated the presence of pathology in people who were cognitively normal.

Prodromal is another term for early Alzheimer's diesease; it equates with a condition also known as mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

This result corresponds with earlier findings that vitamin B supplements slow the rate of brain atrophy in mild cognitive impairment only in individuals with a good Omega - 3 level to begin with.

Earlier studies have indicated that physical activity is linked to reduced rates of cognitive impairment in older individuals.

What can be done for people that have memory impairment, cognitive decline, dementia, or early Alzheimer's?

His group has developed a new approach to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, and this approach has led to the discovery of subtypes of Alzheimer's disease, followed by the first description of reversal of symptoms in patients with mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease, with the ReCODE (Reversal of Cognitive Decline) cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease, with the ReCODE (Reversal of Cognitive Decline) Cognitive Decline) protocol.