Sentences with phrase «experience with cognitive decline»

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Patients who had changed versions of this gene showed early promise, often attending college, but then experienced cognitive decline consistent with a degenerative disease.

Data from 304 PD patients followed for up to 8 years indicate that patients with higher cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) α - synuclein levels experienced faster cognitive decline in the following months, although no associations were found between α - synuclein levels and motor changes.

Kipnis proposes that with fewer T cells, older people can not effectively suppress the inflammation around their brains — which could play a part in the cognitive decline that people experience as they age.

Dr Josephine Mollon from King's IoPPN, now with Yale University, said: «For individuals with psychotic disorders, cognitive decline does not just begin in adulthood, when individuals start to experience symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, but rather many years prior — when difficulties with intellectual tasks first emerge — and worsen over time.

Conversely, those with negative scans experienced much less decline: 90 percent of participants with mild cognitive impairment but no plaque did not progress to Alzheimer's.

Basak's laboratory, which is focused on cognitive interventions to improve abilities that decline with age, is conducting further research to evaluate differences among various types of video games, long - term effects of cognitive training using the games, and effects on patients already experiencing mild cognitive impairment.

Compared with men with sodium levels of 141 - 142 mmol / L, men with levels of 126 - 140 mmol / L were 30 % more likely to have cognitive impairment at baseline and 37 % more likely to experience cognitive decline over time.

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.

Its neuroscience research supports the theory of cognitive reserve, ie, people with MS who lead intellectually enriching lives are less likely to experience cognitive decline.

Do you believe, this is what I believe and I could be wrong and you have more experience in this than I do so I'm testing my hypothesis with an expert, that as you add these toxins, like if you were to say on an average day someone with no toxins doesn't ever drop a word for their memory but on a day or a week or when their mercury levels hit one out of 10, maybe they drop one word today, and when they're five out of 10, they drop four words a day, there's a gradual decline in cognitive performance or physical performance before we hit the «Oh my god I feel crappy all the time, I have chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and I'm a zombie?»