Sentences with phrase «for people with mild cognitive impairment»

Another guideline update says clinicians may recommend cognitive training for people with mild cognitive impairment.

«Regular physical exercise has long been shown to have heart health benefits, and now we can say exercise also may help improve memory for people with mild cognitive impairment,» says Ronald Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., lead author, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Mayo Clinic, and the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging.

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For instance, researchers at IBM Research in Haifa, Israel, are developing a five - minute screening tool that uses voice recordings and computer analysis to identify people with mild cognitive impairment, a precursor to dementia.

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After administering PET scans to 4000 people previously diagnosed with either mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia and treated for Alzheimer's to test for the presence of amyloid plaque, only 53.3 % of patients with MCI and 70.5 % with dementia tested positive.

A new guideline for medical practitioners says they should recommend twice - weekly exercise to people with mild cognitive impairment to improve memory and thinking.

The new blood test will initially be used to identify those people with mild cognitive impairment who are likely to get Alzheimer's disease and so might be good candidates for clinical trials to find drugs that halt disease progression.

Watts said easy - to - walk communities resulted in better outcomes both for physical health — such as lower body mass and blood pressure — and cognition (such as better memory) in the 25 people with mild Alzheimer's disease and 39 older adults without cognitive impairment she tracked.

At the start of the study, the researchers performed MRI scans on 35 people with mild cognitive impairment, which is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.

«Watts said easy - to - walk communities resulted in better outcomes both for physical health — such as lower body mass and blood pressure — and cognition (such as better memory) in the 25 people with mild Alzheimer's disease and 39 older adults without cognitive impairment she tracked,» a University of Kansas article noted.