Previous studies have shown poor cardiovascular health can increase the
risk of cognitive impairment such as problems in memory and learning.
Over two thirds or the home health care population consists of adults over the age of 65, approximately 36 % have some
form of cognitive impairment, including dementia.
Unfortunately, the opposite proved to be the case: Women who took estrogen had a slightly higher
rate of cognitive impairment than women who didn't.
The work also helps to determine the fine line between experience - induced changes in the brain and differences that are the
cause of cognitive impairment.
Until now, scientists haven't understood why about a third of patients who undergo anesthesia and surgery experience some
kind of cognitive impairment — such as memory loss — at hospital discharge.
Too few
cases of cognitive impairment were reported to provide reliable data, and no other differences in the other adverse events was identified.
Regarding sleep, researchers have found that sleeping less than 6 hours or more than 8 increases the risk
of cognitive impairment by 2.6.
As a result, physicians may be more likely to make a diagnosis today, compared with decades ago, even in someone with the same
level of cognitive impairment.
In a novel animal study design that mimicked human clinical trials, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that long - term treatment using a small molecule drug that reduces activity of the brain's stress circuitry significantly reduces Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and prevents
onset of cognitive impairment in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition.
Because they can detect subtle signs
of cognitive impairment indicating that an athlete's brain has not fully healed, even where the athlete claims his symptoms have cleared, the tests are designed to help to protect young athletes against the risk of suffering a second concussion by returning too soon, which can lead to short - and long - term cognitive problems, and catastrophic injury or even death from second impact syndrome.
Although they also hope to expand the research beyond the aging population to examine how distractions can be beneficial for people with a
range of cognitive impairments, for now they recognize that this understanding of cognitive control is a step closer to understanding the aging brain.
In Spain the prevalence
of cognitive impairment varies between 10.1 % and 26.9 % of the population over 65 years - old depending on the region and survey methodologies.
«It was the quality of sleep that predicted future cognitive decline in this study, not the quantity,» said lead author Terri Blackwell, MA, senior statistician at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute (CPMCRI) in San Francisco, Calif. «With the rate
of cognitive impairment increasing and the high prevalence of sleep problems in the elderly, it is important to determine prospective associations with sleep and cognitive decline.»
It found that after being awake for seventeen to nineteen hours, which is a normal day for many of us, we can experience the same levels
of cognitive impairment equal to having a blood alcohol level of.05 percent — just under the limit for being declared legally drunk in many U.S. states.
According to Gonçalves, a higher probability
of cognitive impairment due to early - onset drug use was already observed in a study involving 104 chronic cannabis users.
Conventional legal wisdom holds that neurobiological evidence, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging scans,
evaluations of cognitive impairment, or tests for genetic variants that might affect mental function, is primarily used to argue against the use of the death penalty in capital cases, Farahany says.
Psychiatrist Leslie Jacobsen of Yale University and her colleagues gave smoking and nonsmoking 14 - to 18 - year - olds a
battery of cognitive impairment tests and found that smokers, whether in withdrawal or not, performed significantly worse.
In a previous work, the Regenstrief Institute researchers reported that antihypertensive medications had a protective effect, reducing the
odds of cognitive impairment in older African Americans.
«This is a simple, common, cheap medicine that may affect an important
aspect of cognitive impairment in older adults, and there's a compelling scientific reason to look at it.
«Understanding the
nature of the cognitive impairment and the underlying biological mechanisms are essential to the development of an effective treatment for chemo brain.
Signs
of cognitive impairment include forgetfulness, inability to concentrate, problems recalling information, trouble multi-tasking and becoming slower at processing information.
We report here a
reversal of cognitive impairment in aged huAPP / PS1 mice by J147 and provide evidence that these beneficial effects are due to the ability of J147 to normalize several different aspects of AD pathology, likely through the up - regulation of the neurotrophin pathway.
In this report, we have investigated the molecular species that accumulate intraneuronally in McGill - R - Thy1 - APP rats and examined in parallel the
presence of cognitive impairments, in a model which is closer to the human pathology than transgenic mice.
Correlation between average levels of soluble (a, b) and insoluble (c, d) Aβ42 and Aβ40 and the
magnitude of cognitive impairments in transgenic animals, during the temporal progression of the AD - like amyloid pathology.
As the baby boomer population continues to age, the
problem of cognitive impairment will likely continue to increase, placing more pressure on families and the healthcare system.
Adolescent users should avoid nicotine because it hampers growth of the prefrontal cortex in those under 25 and use of the drug early on increases risk
of cognitive impairment later in life.
If you are diagnosed as chronically ill and consequently become unable to perform simple daily activities such as bathing, eating or dressing, or if you are diagnosed as chronically ill
because of cognitive impairment, you may be eligible for a chronic illness benefit.
It makes a mockery of our justice system if we incarcerate children who have some
sort of cognitive impairment, which we increasingly think is the case.»