Sentences with phrase «for early signs of dementia»

Using transcripts of the 46 news conferences Reagan held while president, Arizona State University researchers Visar Berisha, PhD, and Julie Liss, PhD searched for early signs of dementia, including the use of repetitive words, swapping out specific nouns for non-specific words such as «thing,» and a decline in the use of complex words.

But not all the products on the market are designed using scientific knowledge of the aging brain, and their ability to make meaningful, lasting changes hasn't been proven, says Smith, who studies games as treatment for early signs of dementia.

Not exact matches

«DATATOP subjects were recruited at early disease stages, without apparent signs of dementia and prior to needing dopamine - supplementing drugs, making this cohort ideal for studying PD progression,» explains Jing Zhang, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine (Seattle).

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Researchers at the Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco have shown that a loss of cells in the retina is one of the earliest signs of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in people with a genetic risk for the disorder — even before any changes appear in their behavior.

I know these sets are billed for ages 8 +, and that I am so far into the «+» that I've almost rounded back on the «8» again — don't think about it (I clearly didn't, an early warning sign of my inevitable decent into dementia)-- but I think I made my case in the first paragraph.

Despite a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's in September 2001, the judge held that Mrs Scammell had testamentary capacity when she signed the will and reiterated that, as in Hoff v Atherton [2005] WTLR 99, [2004] All ER (D) 314 (Nov), it is possible for an individual to have testamentary capacity despite suffering from mild to moderate dementia.