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Study looks at the question of whether certain personality traits more conducive to cognitive decline.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 12, 2022 Source:Your personality can protect or age your brain, study finds Reference:Personality traits, cognitive states, and mortality in older adulthood.
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Take note of correlation/causation issue with headlines citing dementia & Alzheimer disease being most commonly associated with Covid-related deaths. Message is that it is usually a combination of comorbidities and age that increase death risk from Covid.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 17, 2021 Source:Dementia, Alzheimer’s most common comorbidities associated with COVID-19 deaths: StatCan Reference:Provisional death counts and excess mortality, January 2020 to February 2021
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Reducing the confusion and stress during the holiday season for people suffering from dementia
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 23, 2019 Source:The TV repeats and old songs that help people with dementia
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Unpublished study begets questions about the neurological basis why having a “paying job” may help fend off Alzheimer’s in women.
Health Headlines Commentary for July 23, 2019 Source:Having a paying job may help fend off Alzheimer’s disease in women Reference:Presented their findings at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference recently in Los Angeles.
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There is no evidence from this study to suggest that antidepressants can triple the risk of people developing dementia.
Health Headlines Commentary for June 12, 2019 Source:Older people taking antidepressants could triple their risk of developing dementia: Study Reference:Exposure to Antidepressant Medication and the Risk of Incident Dementia
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Ketogenic drink may help curb mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease but then again it may not. Only 52 people involved in this small study.
Health Headlines Commentary for May 27, 2019 Source: Ketone drink may one day fight Alzheimer’s disease and dementia Reference: A ketogenic drink improves brain energy and some measures of cognition in mild cognitive impairment
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Preventing heart disease also benefits the brain
Health Headlines Commentary for February 8, 2019 Source: Preventing heart disease and stroke can offer protection for brain: report Reference: (Dis)connected: How unseen links are putting us at risk
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Excellent basic science study looks at certain viruses as a contributing factor to the development of Alheimer’s
Health Headlines Commentary for June 22, 2018 Source: New evidence that viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s Reference: Multiscale Analysis of Independent Alzheimer’s Cohorts Finds Disruption of Molecular, Genetic, and Clinical Networks by Human Herpesvirus
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Study suggests that slightly elevated blood pressure in your 50’s if left untreated could lead to increased dementia risk but it cannot prove that this is true
Health Headlines Commentary for June 15, 2018 Source: Slightly higher blood pressure increases dementia risk Reference: Association between systolic blood pressure and dementia in the Whitehall II cohort study: role of age, duration, and threshold used to define hypertensionEuropean Heart Journal. Published online June 12 2018 Analysis: Even slightly raised blood pressure in middle age…