A 40-minute call every month from a non-clinical professional may help to improve depressive symptoms for individuals who are caring for their loved ones who are dementia patients.
Date Posted: October 3, 2019
Categories: Dementia, Depression
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If you’re a chili lover, you might want to cut down on some of that spicy goodness for the sake of your cognitive functioning. Recent studies have found that eating more than 50 grams of chili a day might be associated with dementia.
Jul 23
Categories: Dementia
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Dementia can be affected by your lifestyle choices, and one of the ways that has been evidenced to prevent the onset, is adopting a healthier and more active lifestyle. This article seeks to detail how exercise helps improve not just physical ...
Jan 9
Categories: Cognitive Problems Amnesia / Dementia, Dementia
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New findings have found that 50-year-olds who had blood pressure that was higher than normal but still below the threshold that is used when deciding to treat the condition, were at increased risk of developing dementia in later life.
Jun 14
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues, Cognitive Problems Amnesia / Dementia, ...
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A group of researchers recently conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of applying a human rights based approach in dementia inpatient wards and care homes. The results, while surprising, reflects a key issue in healthcare in ...
Mar 22
Categories: Dementia
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A new study has found that changes in sense of humour can occur almost a decade before memory loss, the most common symptom associated with dementia.
Apr 14
Categories: Dementia
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Dementia patients living in long-term care often have very low levels of activity, and this strongly contributes to a low quality of life, according to a new large-scale national study by the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre and Griffith ...
Dec 5
Categories: Dementia
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People who experienced high anxiety any time in their lives had a 48%t higher risk of developing dementia compared to those who had not, according to a new study led by USC researchers. The study sample involved data collected over 28 years from ...
Nov 24
Categories: Anxiety, Cognitive Problems Amnesia / Dementia, Dementia
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One particular type of mental exercise may succeed at doing what nothing else has before: putting off dementia. A new, 10-year study showed that speed training - computer exercises that get users to visually process information more quickly - beat ...
Oct 15
Categories: Cognitive Problems Amnesia / Dementia, Dementia
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Attention-grabbing experiences trigger the release of memory-enhancing chemicals. Those chemicals can etch memories into the brain that occur just before or soon after the experience, regardless of whether they were related to the event, according ...
Sep 9
Categories: Dementia
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For the first time, a study in mice, to be published in the journal eLife, shows that five hours of sleep deprivation leads to a loss of connectivity between neurons in the hippocampus, a region of the brain associated with learning and memory.
Aug 24
Categories: Dementia, Sleep Disorders
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…and the type of memory problems that are nothing to worry about.
Aug 5
Categories: Dementia
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Using the landmark Framingham Heart Study to assess how physical activity affects the size of the brain and one's risk for developing dementia, UCLA researchers found an association between low physical activity and a higher risk for dementia in ...
Aug 3
Categories: Dementia
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How a brief intervention could have such long-lasting results remains unclear
Jul 26
Categories: Dementia
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Cognitive brain training improves executive function whereas aerobic activity improves memory, according to new Center for BrainHealth research at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Jul 19
Categories: Dementia
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New methods to examine the brain and spinal fluid heighten the chance of early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. These findings may have important implications for early detection of the disease, the choice of drug treatment and the inclusion of ...
Jul 11
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues, Dementia
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