Sentences with phrase «of people with mild cognitive impairment»

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People with mild cognitive impairment are at one - in - 10 risk of developing dementia within a year — and the risk is markedly higher among those with depression.

People with mild cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who score lower on tests such as the California Verbal Learning Test, which requires participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.

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This will enable people with mild cognitive impairments to live more independently, and the robots will also help with activities that can improve quality of life, such as exercise and social visits.

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.

«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.

Six - month studies showed twice - weekly workouts may help people with mild cognitive impairment as part of an overall approach to managing their symptoms.

«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.

More than 6 percent of people in their 60s have mild cognitive impairment across the globe, and the condition becomes more common with age, according to the American Academy of Neurology.

Other research studies have reported a decline in social networks in people with Alzheimer's disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and previous literature has shown psychological well - being in older age to be associated with reduced risk of developing Alzheimer's dementia.

Mild cognitive impairment sets in at a median age of 44 in people carrying the mutation, and full - blown dementia at 49, decades earlier than is common with the more typical sporadic form of the disease.

The results reinforce previous work in larger groups of people showing that cognitive training improves memory in people with mild cognitive impairment.»

Further research published in the journal Neuropsychology studied the effects of being bilingual on the executive functioning of two groups of participants: 75 people with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and 74 with a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment, a condition that sometimes progresses into Alzheimer's disease.

The operationalization of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) led to targeting earlier symptomatic cases of the illness and treatment strategies based less on pathology and more on a chance to halt or slow decline than there would be earlier in the disease.1 With the development of amyloid imaging, MCI due to AD diagnosis was refined, 2 and early - stage AD was extended further to include preclinical AD, 3 wherein a positive amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scan or diagnostic low levels of cerebrospinal fluid β - amyloid (Aβ) indicated the presence of pathology in people who were cognitively normal.

Or you have an elderly person with arthritis who has a mild dementia: In that case, the bias would be to try an NSAID because the opioid has a higher likelihood of causing cognitive impairment.

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.

Each group included some people with Alzheimer's disease, some with mild cognitive impairment, and some with no signs of mental deterioration.

At the beginning of the study individuals with mild cognitive impairment had more difficulty remembering location of objects and had less hippocampus brain activity in comparison to healthy people.

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic, publishing the results of their study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, explain how people 70 and older who eat food high in carbohydrates have nearly four times the risk of developing mild cognitive impairment, and the danger is also present with a diet heavy in sugar.

In one study, detailed in the Sept. 12 issue of the journal Neurology, researchers compared the brain scans of 120 people belonging to three groups: 40 of the participants had mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a transition stage between normal aging and the more serious memory problems associated with Alzheimer's disease; 40 complained of significant memory problems but did not have MCI and 40 were healthy controls.

In one study, people with higher folate levels experienced slower rates of brain atrophy — as well as a longer period of time progressing from mild cognitive impairment to full - blown dementia.

«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.

People with mild cognitive impairment that improves in the shorter term remain at increased risk of future cognitive decline

Depressive symptoms in elderly people are associated with an increased risk of developing mild cognitive impairment independently of vascular disease