LearningRx1 Alzheimer's/Dementia | http://www.learningrx.org - Part 15

Childhood cognition may predict dementia risk later in life

Dec 27, 2019 by

Childhood cognition may predict dementia risk later in life

Researchers looked at 502 people born in the same week in 1946 who had taken cognitive tests at age 8 and again at ages 69-71. They found that childhood cognition was a good predictor of dementia later in life,...

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Diets high in salt may promote cognitive decline

Dec 17, 2019 by

Diets high in salt may promote cognitive decline

How could a diet high in salt promote cognitive decline? According to new research, it destabilizes levels of the protein tau, which is the hallmark of dementia. In a new study on mice, scientists found that a high-salt diet...

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Extra virgin olive oil may protect against dementias

Dec 5, 2019 by

Extra virgin olive oil may protect against dementias

A new study on mice, scientists found that a diet rich in extra virgin olive oil appears to prevent the toxic accumulation of the protein tau. Tau is the hallmark of multiple types of dementia. In addition, brain tissue...

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Board games appear to stave off cognitive decline

Dec 2, 2019 by

Board games appear to stave off cognitive decline

New research from the University of Edinburgh found that people who play more non-digital games in their 70s were more likely to maintain healthy cognitive function in their older years. This was even after accounting for confounding factors, such...

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CTE Risk, Severity Increases With Years Playing Football

Nov 12, 2019 by

CTE Risk, Severity Increases With Years Playing Football

New research from Boston University School of Medicine has found that the risk and severity of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) increases with every year of football played. The study was published in Annals of Neurology....

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Food Comas May Help Preserve Long-term Memory

Nov 5, 2019 by

Food Comas May Help Preserve Long-term Memory

Although most of us probably think of food comas as something that shuts down our brain, new research from New York University has found that food comas may actually help us to form long-term memories....

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Habitual Tea Drinking Makes the Brain More Efficient

Oct 31, 2019 by

Habitual Tea Drinking Makes the Brain More Efficient

Researchers recruited health participants and looked at their tea-drinking habits to determine if consuming tea had any effect on functional and/or structural networks in the brain. They found that although there were no significant effects on the hemispheric asymmetry...

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