Sentences with phrase «of early dementia»

That can put you at risk of early dementia.

Ginkgo improves blood flow to the brain and helps relieve some symptoms of early dementia.

Others have told him they thought they were suffering from symptoms of early dementia.

The disease can confer a kind of early dementia and may shorten its victims» lives by 20 years.

«The way the brain processes speech could serve as a predictor of early dementia.»

Within older adults who scored below the normal benchmark on a dementia screening test, but have no noticeable communication problems, scientists have discovered a new potential predictor of early dementia through abnormal functionality in regions of the brain that process speech (the brainstem and auditory cortex).

But in the end, it was, in my view, a woefully tame and romanticized depiction of the steps the league has taken to protect its current players from the dangers of head injuries in a sport that has left too many of its former players struggling in retirement with symptoms of early dementia, depression, and thoughts of suicide.

The N.F.L.'s Super Bowl commercial touting the league's progress since its founding to make the game safer obscured the reality that league has not done enough to protect its current players from the dangers of head injuries and left too many of its former players struggling in retirement with symptoms of early dementia, depression, and thoughts of suicide.

Not exact matches

If he falls in the range for 71 - year - olds with a college degree (he has a bachelor's from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), then even if his language, memory, and other mental capacities have declined over the years he is probably not suffering from early Alzheimer's or other dementia.

Thanks to the work of several dogged journalists, and despite the NFL's best efforts to subvert the truth, we now know that repeated blows to the head experienced in the normal course of football play can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage resulting in early onset dementia and severe (and, in the worst cases, suicidal) depression.

Forty percent of doctors are willing to kill «early - stage dementia» patients, and 33 percent are willing to kill «advanced dementia» patients who had requested as much in an advance medical directive.

It's all fine when you are young but once your spine starts failing and you get early signs of dementia you might change your views.

Either Wenger is insulting the entire fans or he's showing early symptoms of Alzheimer's or dementia related issues.

Wenger who had been a God, morphed, under the temptation of huge salary assurances and supreme power gifted to him by an owner and a board without honour and crucially, any understanding of modern football, into a tinpot dictator, ageing and descending into early onset dementia, rather like Robert Mugabe.

Of course it could just that I am a bit pissed and have early onset dementia.

In addition, delayed identification increases the risk of long - term problems such as early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, or of the devastating degenerative neurological condition known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE (although medical science has not come close to quantifying that risk).

If an athlete is allowed to continue playing after concussion, however, their recovery is likely to take longer, and they may be at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and, in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

I panicked thinking I was experiencing early onset of dementia, a mini stroke, maybe a brain aneurysm...... what??!!

The government plans to provide training to all family doctors enabling them to spot the early signs of dementia, it has emerged.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough claims sources close to Trump, 71, believe he's showing early signs of dementia.

«The national dementia strategy published earlier this year is backed with substantial funding and we are appointing a national clinical director for dementia to lead transformation of services,» Mr Hope added.

One scene strongly suggests she was experiencing the early stages of dementia while in office.

And what about the patient suffering from undiagnosed early dementia or depression, who is incapable of making a rational judgement and yet has not - so - loving relatives who may gain materially from an adverse decision?

• Labour supporters who switched to the Tories early in the campaign, were scared off by the dementia tax and the possible return of fox hunting, and have come back to the fold • Supporters of smaller parties - the Lib Dems, the Greens and to a lesser extent Ukip - switching to Labour • Young voters

One of these studies, published in the Annals New York Academy of Sciences, found that poor linguistic ability early in life is associated with a risk of developing dementia later on.

Essentially, it is time for us to wake up and realize that a major problem we now face is unprecedented levels of neurological disease, not just the earlier dementias and thinking of the USA — «when America sneezes, Europe gets cold a decade later.»

Exemplified in a new charity «Young Dementia UK, who report that many of their clients are in their late 40's and early 50's - something unthinkable twenty years ago»

Now, researchers in The Netherlands have coupled machine learning methods with a special MRI technique that measures the perfusion, or tissue absorption rate, of blood throughout the brain to detect early forms of dementia, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

Early dementia is typically associated with memory and thinking problems; but older adults should also be vigilant about hearing and communication problems, suggest recent findings in a joint Baycrest - University of Memphis study.

SCD and MCI are considered to be early stages of the dementia process and are diagnosed based on the severity of cognitive symptoms, including memory loss and thought - and decision - making problems.

«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.

Physicians have no definitive way of identifying who has early dementia or which cases of mild cognitive impairment will progress to Alzheimer's disease.

«Further research is needed to clarify the role of sleep disturbance as either a risk factor for, or an early symptom of, dementia among veterans, and in other populations as well.»

They venture that a possible explanation for the particularly high risk found in early to mid-life may lie in the fact that heavier weight is associated with diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors, which are themselves linked to a heightened risk of dementia.

The test could enable earlier diagnosis of a group of degenerative brain diseases called synucleinopathies, which include Parkinson's disease, Lewy Body dementia, and multiple system atrophy.

Early to mid-life obesity appears to be linked to heightened risk of dementia in later life, researchers report.

«Early to mid-life obesity linked to heightened risk of dementia in later life.»

The only person in his family since the early 16th century to have dementia was his great - grandmother, so the familial type of Alzheimer's, which is responsible for about 3 percent of cases, is not likely.

Detection of dementia at the earliest stages has become a worldwide priority, because drug treatments, prevention strategies and other interventions will likely be more effective very early in the disease process, before extensive brain damage has occurred.

The high prevalence of OSA the study found in these cognitively normal elderly participants and the link between OSA and amyloid burden in these very early stages of AD pathology, the researchers believe, suggest the CPAP, dental appliances, positional therapy and other treatments for sleep apnea could delay cognitive impairment and dementia in many older adults.

This will be of particular benefit to those people who have mild cognitive impairments, for example older people who are still physically healthy but may have early symptoms of dementia.»

«Our goal is to identify people who are at the highest risk for dementia as early as possible» said study author Ronald Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., Chester and Debbie Cadieux Director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Cora Kanow Professor of Alzheimer's Disease Research and a member of the American Academy of Neurology.

«Early detection of individuals at high risk of developing memory and thinking problems that we call mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is crucial because people with MCI are at a greater risk of developing dementia.

«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).

Frontotemporal Dementia is one of the most common forms of early onset dementia that typically starts in individuals in their Dementia is one of the most common forms of early onset dementia that typically starts in individuals in their dementia that typically starts in individuals in their fifties.

AI algorithms used with MRI brain scans help distinguish between patients with Alzheimer's and two early forms of dementia that can be precursors to the memory - robbing disease

The earlier discovery of mutations in UBQLN2 gene, which causes ALS and ALS / dementia in children and adults, in the Siddique lab led to the screening of the UBQLN family of genes in a large cohort of patients with familial ALS, resulting in the identification of the UBQLN4 mutation.

Larger size of the hematoma (the clotted blood) and location in the brain were associated with risk for early post-ICH dementia within six months.

There were 738 patients (average age about 74) without pre-ICH dementia who were included in the analyses of early post-ICH dementia within six months.