Sentences with phrase «people with mild cognitive impairment»

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

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

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

«Identifying people with mild cognitive impairment at risk for dementia with Lewy bodies is critical for early interventions,» says the study's lead author Kejal Kantarci, M.D., a Mayo Clinic radiologist.

The researchers also examined whether people with mild cognitive impairment who took PPIs were at higher risk for developing dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

A Japanese research group has revealed that elderly people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have a particularly weakened ability to memorize human faces in the short term when compared to healthy elderly people.

And not a single person with mild cognitive impairment had higher levels of SERT compared to their healthy control.

The researchers tested their virtual Morris Maze on people with mild cognitive impairments due to Alzheimer's, which may manifest in the form of memory and cognition problems.

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.

There are not any studies of a similar nature that have been undertaken with humans but analysing a double - blind study with acetyl L - Carnitine and placebo have shown that it may improve cognitive function and slow the deteriorating of people with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

«Dementia risk quadrupled in people with mild cognitive impairment.»

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.

«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.

To conduct the study, scientists evaluated 156 elderly people with mild cognitive impairment.

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.

That being said, the researchers found that people with mild cognitive impairment had up to 38 percent less SERT detected in their brains compared to each of their age - matched healthy controls.

The team, comprising researchers from the Brain and Mind Centre, reviewed more than 20 years of research and showed that brain training could lead to improvements in global cognition, memory, learning and attention, as well as psychosocial functioning (mood and self - perceived quality of life) in people with mild cognitive impairment.

For example, those people with mild cognitive impairment had 37 percent lower verbal memory scores and 18 percent lower levels of SERT in the brain's hippocampus compared to healthy controls.

In the study, 160 people with mild cognitive impairment had brain MRI scans to measure hippocampus size.

A person with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has a slight but noticeable and measurable decline in cognitive abilities, including memory and thinking skills.

Researchers examined a method that has effectively boosted this process among healthy older adults and people with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

He compared brain scans, as well as fluid from the brain and spine, from three groups: people without Alzheimer's disease, people with mild cognitive impairment or memory problems who may have Alzheimer's disease, and people with full - blown Alzheimer's disease.

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 team identified 16 proteins that were strongly associated with brain shrinkage in people with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's.

But some people with mild cognitive impairment never get worse, and a few eventually get better.

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.

Similar changes are found in almost all persons with mild cognitive impairment at risk of conversion to AD.

It will test an intranasal insulin spray against placebo in people with mild cognitive impairment or early Alzheimer's.

When Craft tried the strategy in humans by giving intranasal insulin to people with mild cognitive impairment or early Alzheimer's, the results were impressive: about three - quarters remained stable or improved cognitively over the four months of treatment, Craft says.

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.

That people with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's Disease do show improved cognition when ketones are elevated is proof that their withering, atrophied neurons aren't dead; they're hibernating.

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