Repeated alcohol detoxifications can impair cognitive function
...en in a clinician's office, would not appear to be cognitively impaired, but yet they are." Identification of the mild to moderate classifications of alcoholism was determined through questionnaires about alcohol use, severity of dependence, and expectations from alcohol. "Another interesting finding of Dr. Duk...Brief telephonic questionnaire detects early signs of dementia
...ministered an 11-item questionnaire by phone to 60 cognitively impaired persons (age range, 57-99 years) and 44 elderly persons with intact cognitive function (age range, 56100 years). They then used statistical analysis to select a combination of items that best distinguished which persons had cognitive impairm...Appreciation of humor doesn't change with age
...Humor 'comprehension' is defined as the ability to cognitively or intellectually understand humorous material, wh...such as smiling, laughing) once the humor has been cognitively processed and understood at some level. "The good news is that aging does not affect emotional respo...SFVAMC researchers distinguish dementias using brain imaging
...entia, or SIVD. They compared these subjects to 52 cognitively normal elderly subjects. The researchers used MRI to create three-dimensional images of the patients' brains in order to look for differences in structure. They also used magnetic resonance spectroscopy to look at the chemical signature of different ...Schizophrenia has different sub-types linked to problems in different parts of the brain
...red cognition. Turetsky et al. identified the two cognitively impaired subtypes as "cortical" and "subcortical," consistent with the types of dementia observed in Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease, respectively. The cortical subtype, found in 18 percent of the patients, was the most distinctive. These pat...Alzheimer's drug improves pilots' performance on tests
... between the haves and have-nots when the rich are cognitively enhanced not only through better education, but also through drugs or other technologies? And how should the use of these therapies be regulated in settings beyond aviation or normal aging, such as chess matches or test-taking among college students?...MRI brain scan may detect Alzheimer's disease decades before first symptoms
...correctly identify older Catholic sisters who were cognitively normal before they died but fulfilled pathological criteria for fully developed Alzheimers disease at autopsy. In addition, the smaller hippocampal volumes were an indicator of milder pathological changes the accumulation of senile plaques and neur...Nutrition status affects cognitive impairment in the elderly
...000 elderly in the United States and Canada become cognitively impaired each year, and often require expensive long-term care. Though it was previously thought that such age-related decline was inevitable, recent research suggests that deficiencies of folate or vitamin B-12 and elevations of plasma homocysteine...Delaying disability in elderly
... moderately to severely disabled, but not severely cognitively impaired, at study entry. These women represented the approximately one-third most disabled older women living in the community. These data were obtained from November 1992 to February 1995. ...Researchers demonstrate direct, real-time brain control of cursor
...re some independence to paralyzed patients who are cognitively normal people unable to carry out their movement intentions." The research involves use of thin electrodes to record the activity of a few neurons in the brain's motor cortex. This area contains the cells that fire when a hand moves. Activity of the ...'Use it or lose it?' study suggests mentally stimulating activities may reduce Alzheimer's risk
...ciation, found that more frequent participation in cognitively stimulating activities is associated with a reduce...nt reduction in the risk of AD. The examination of cognitively stimulating activities and risk of AD was conducted by Robert S. Wilson, Ph.D., and colleagues at th......the pathogenesis of AD or in the memory decline of cognitively impaired elderly is unclear presently. Furthermore, much of the evidence concerning a correlation between ApoE4 copy number and the pathological features of AD (e.g. neuronal plaque density and the appearance of neurofibrillary tangles) is contradic...Return to play not determined by the numbers
.... "People can be asymptomatic and still be cognitively deficient. Theycan still have problems with memory and processing of information." Echemendia suggests that the athletes be looked at individually,evaluating the entire pattern including initial physical symptoms, how longsymptoms lasted, the......oms or keeppatients stable forever. "If people are cognitively impaired to the point whereit no longer is safe for them to drive a car, for example, taking an AChEinhibitor won't restore them to a point where they will be able to resumedriving," he says. "But eventually, we hope to have agents that can halt or e...