Sentences with phrase «of cognitive disease»

The main benefits of this supplement relate to metabolic and cardiovascular health, as well as a significant decrease in the risk of cognitive disease and some types of cancer.

There is a presence of several components in these berries which contribute in improving memory and reduce the risk of cognitive diseases.

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«Through this collaboration with the cancer community's leading clinical and pathology experts, thousands of more patients can potentially benefit from the world's growing body of knowledge about this disease,» said IBM Research and Cognitive Solutions senior vice president John Kelly in a statement.

Fernando Pagan, a GUMC associate professor of neurology who directs the Movement Disorders Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, said that to his knowledge, the study «represents the first time a therapy appears to reverse — to a greater or lesser degree depending on stage of disease — cognitive and motor decline in patients with these neurodegenerative disorders.»

Studies have shown that walking more lowers risks of chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, which is linked with decreased cognitive function.

Walking reduces depression, lowers your risk of diabetes, cancer, depression, and heart disease, slows down the aging process, and improves cognitive abilities.

I didn't start to regain my pre-cancer cognitive and physical functioning until about nine months after hearing my oncologist say, «no evidence of disease.»

Though it's still being understood, doctors have identified a series of very serious conditions linked to the disease: depression, cognitive impairment, suicidal thoughts and behavior, aggression, short - term memory loss, difficulty walking, dementia and, yes, substance abuse.

Turmeric is powerful enough to treat cancer, increase cognitive function and lower your risk of heart disease.

Relieving stress and anxiety can also help reduce your chances of heart disease, hormonal imbalance, insomnia, cognitive decline, and premature aging.

A Drink Might Boost Cognition and Creativity, and Potentially Fight Off the Flu A study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease finds evidence that adults who drink moderately and regularly have a higher chance of not only living longer, but doing so without developing dementia or other cognitive impairment...

Offering her support for its health and holistic benefits, Dorit Adler, the chief clinical dietician of Hadassah University Medical Center, said: «The evidence - based research proves again and again that the [low - meat] Mediterranean diet lowers the risks of most of the modern diseases from obesity through diabetes, heart disease and even cognitive impairment.

Long - term studies of both problems and potential benefit of Kona coffee drank by elderly people, including assessment on symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment, are not conclusive.

Ingesting aluminum is pretty conclusively linked to increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and general cognitive decline.

Long - term studies of both risk and potential benefit of drinking Kona by elderly people, including assessment on symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment, are not conclusive.

Studies have shown that among the many effects of physical abuse are depression, anxiety, cognitive and learning difficulties, even a lowering of IQ (especially verbal IQ), disordered sleep, flashbacks, loss of empathy, aggressive behavior, chronically high stress levels which can lead to chronic health effects such as high blood pressure and increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and inability to maintain relationships.

Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.

What we don't have to wait for is knowing that breastfeeding can and does make a difference, not only with decreasing the risk of respiratory diseases and allergies but with cognitive (intellect) development as well.

Students enrolled in NutriBullet University have seen a variety of health improvements such as a decrease in total cholesterol levels, improved cognitive function and a decreased risk for lifestyle diseases.

An older study in the Archives of Disease of Childhood found that prolonged crying was associated with adverse cognitive development.

These include increased prevalence of a range of infectious diseases and health conditions — ear infections, gastrointestinal infections respiratory infections, necrotizing enterocolitis, sepsis, meningitis, diabetes, childhood cancers, obesity, allergies — formula fed infants grow and develop differently from breastmilk fed infants, including cognitive and neural development.

Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number of studies that show a possible protective effect of human milk feeding against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37 Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement of cognitive development.38, 39

Breastfeeding has many benefits that include protecting the baby against inflammatory diseases of the gut, lungs or ears, and longer term health problems such as diabetes and obesity, improved cognitive outcomes, and protecting the mother against breast cancer.

Breastfeeding has been linked to numerous benefits for the health, growth and development of infants, including fewer infections, diseases, and possible increased cognitive development.

Many epidemiologic studies consistently show that breastfeeding not only provides optimal bio-avaiable nutrients, but also protects against diarrhoeal, respiratory and other diseases [11][12][13][14], including the non-communicable disease of obesity in later life [15][16][17] and leads to improved cognitive and psychosocial outcomes [18][19][20].

Ay 10:30 a.m., sen. David Carlucci, Rep. Steve Israel, Rep. Nita Lowey, and Assemblyman Charles Lavine will hold an Alzheimer's Disease and Neuroscience Research Roundtable with experts from the Nathan Kline Institute, Feinstein Institute, Mount Sinai Center for Cognitive Health and the Alzheimer's Association of the Hudson Valley, Ellipse Lecture Hall, Rockland Community College, 145 College Rd., Suffern.

Although Alzheimer's disease is probably the most recognized cause of dementia, HS - AGING also causes serious cognitive impairment in older adults.

The researchers speculate that this could underlie cognitive problems of the disease, which can persist despite treatment of seizures.

It is important for physicians and scientists to understand the unique pathology of HS - AGING, and to be able to differentiate it from other diseases, as it is only by making an accurate diagnosis that clinicians can hope to treat people who present with signs of cognitive decline.

«Cognitive aging is not a disease or a level of impairment — it is a lifelong process that affects everyone,» explains lead author Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

An expert panel convened by the Institute of Medicine clarified the cognitive aging process by making a distinction from Alzheimer disease and related dementias, and provided recommendations to enhance cognitive health in older adults.

Marilyn Albert is the Director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

The brains of the super-agers showed less cortical thinning, or neuron loss in certain areas, said lead researcher Emily Rogalski, research associate professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

The study also linked traumatic brain injury with the onset of neurodegenerative disorders, including mild cognitive impairment as well as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

«We found that physical activity has the potential to preserve the volume of the hippocampus in those with increased risk for Alzheimer's disease, which means we can possibly delay cognitive decline and the onset of dementia symptoms in these individuals.

In the meantime, those with AB blood need not panic about their future cognitive wherewithal, she says, noting that all our brains are apt to benefit from a healthy diet, awareness of our risk factors for heart disease and stroke, and regular exercise for the body and brain.

Because there is still no accepted biomarker for aging, the drug's success would be judged by whether it can delay the development of several diseases whose incidence increases dramatically with age: cardiovascular disease, cancer, and cognitive decline, along with mortality.

Researchers used accelerometers to measure the daily physical activity of participants, all of whom are in late middle - age and at high genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease, but presently show no cognitive impairment.

«Unfortunately, most clinical trials to date have focused on patients whose cognitive deficits are already mild to severe, and when the therapeutic opportunities in this late stage of the disease are minimal.

Both he and a younger sister with mild cognitive problems, have two copies of a mutation in a gene called APP, while relatives with just one copy of the mutation, including an 88 - year - old aunt, seemed to be actively protected against the disease (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1168979).

Huntington's disease is a brain disorder characterized by the emergence of decreased motor, cognitive, and psychiatric abilities, most commonly appearing in the mid-30s and 40s.

«Now that we have more evidence that serotonin is a chemical that appears affected early in cognitive decline, we suspect that increasing serotonin function in the brain could prevent memory loss from getting worse and slow disease progression,» says Gwenn Smith, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Jim Monti (right) a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Illinois psychology professor Neal Cohen (left), developed a cognitive task that helps differentiate older adults with very early Alzheimer's disease from those experiencing normal aging.

«Brain scan study adds to evidence that lower brain serotonin levels are linked to dementia: Results suggest serotonin loss may be a key player in cognitive decline, not just a side - effect of Alzheimer's disease.»

Previous studies from Johns Hopkins and other centers have shown that people with Alzheimer's disease and severe cognitive decline have severe loss of serotonin neurons, but the studies did not show whether those reductions were a cause or effect of the disease.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

Cognitive decline is among the most dreaded consequences of old age and disease.

Ten weeks of intravenous antibiotics improved cognitive functioning in Lyme disease patients in a 2004 study funded by the National Institutes of Health and carried out by psychiatrist Brian Fallon at Columbia University.

«That was illuminating and will serve to inform future work aimed at understanding and detecting the earliest cognitive manifestations of Alzheimer's disease,» Monti said.

The neuroprotective effects of nicotine were studied in a randomized clinical trial involving 67 subjects in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, where memory was slightly impaired but decision - making and other cognitive abilities remained intact.