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Use of Bright Lighting Improves Dementia Symptoms
(ScienceDaily.com - June 11, 2008) - In a study conducted at 12 elderly group care facilities in the Netherlands, and published in the June 22, 2008 issue of JAMA, resarchers found that bright light lessened cognitive deterioration by a relative 5 percent, reduced depressive symptoms by a relative 19 percent and diminished the gradual increase in functional limitations by a relative 53 percent.
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Midlife Smoking Associated with Memory Deficit
(ScienceDaily.com - June 10, 2008) - A study of 10,308 London-based civil servants age 35 to 55 followed for an average of 17.1 years found that smoking in middle age is associated with memory deficit and decline in reasoning abilities.
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Brain Training Improves Fluid Intelligence
(ScienceDaily.com - June 6, 2008) - A University of Michigan study demonstrated that fluid intelligence can be improved with dual n-back training (SPECIAL NOTE - MyBrainTrainer's dual n-back test is scheduled for release at the end of June 2008).
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DHEA Does Not Improve Cognitive Performance
(Medscape - May 28, 2008) - A study published in the May 14 Online First issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society concluded that "DHEA supplementation has no benefit on cognitive performance or well-being in healthy older adults, and it should not be recommended for that purpose in the general population."
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Prenatal Fish Intake Improves Infants' Cognitive Function
(Reuters - May 27, 2008) - A study published in the May 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology concluded that the cognitive test scores of 3-year olds rose with the amount of fish their mothers had consumed while pregnant, but those whose mothers had more mercury in their bodies performed less well on the tests.
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Celery and Green Pepper Reduce Brain Inflammation
(ScienceDaily.com - May 23, 2008) - A study recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that a plant compound found in abundance in celery and green peppers can disrupt a key component of the inflammatory response in the brain, and thus might be helpful in limiting the cognitive deficits that result from aging.
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Bypass Not To Blame For Heart Patients' Mental Decline
(ScienceDaily.com - May 20, 2008) - A study published in the May 2008 issue of Annals of Neurology found that heart disease patients who received bypass surgery fared no worse in subsequent tests of cognition than did heart disease patients who were treated with prescription medications and/or angioplasty with stents.
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Hierarchial Power Enhances Executive Function
(Time Magazine - May 20, 2008) - A study in the May 2008 issue of Psychological Science found that rank in a hierarchy fundamentally alters people's basic cognitive function.
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No Cognitive Benefit from NSAIDS
(MedPageToday.com - May 12, 2008) - No cognitive benefits were seen in patients at risk for Alzheimer's Disease from the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs naproxen (Aleve) and celecoxib (Celebrex) according to a study published in the Archives of Neurology.
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Deep-Brain Stimulation Shows Promise for Treating Alzheimer's
(TechnologyReview.com - May 12, 2008) - A Canadian researcher and his collaborators have seen promising results in six Alzheimer's patients who have been treated with electric currents delivered directly to their brains.
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Lung Function and Cognitive Development
(Psychosomatic Medicine - March 31, 2008) - A study of 165 children in Boston found that "increased lung function was associated with increased cognitive development among children after adjusting for tobacco exposure, birhweight, and peak blood level."
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Larger Belly In Mid-life Increases Risk Of Dementia
(ScienceDaily.com - March 26, 2008) - People with larger stomachs in their 40s are more likely to have dementia when they reach their 70s, according to a new study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Hypertension Impairs Cognitive Function
(Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - March 2008) - High blood pressure is associated with worse brain function than normal blood pressure in people aged 60 and older, according to a study conducted by physicians at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC.
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Women with Higher Levels of DHEAS Have Better Cognitive Function
(Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism - March 2008) - Women with naturally higher levels of the hormone precursor DHEAS performed better on tests of executive function, concentration, and working memory than women with lower levels of DHEAS.
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Early Diet of Premature Babies
(Pediatric Research - March 2008) - A study by researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the UCL Institute of Child Health in London, found a direct link between early diet in preterm infants and the structure of the brain.
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Learning and Developmental Disabilities Linked to Environmental Toxins
(HealthSentinel.com - February 25, 2008) - On February 20, 2008 The Collaborative on Health and the Environment’s Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative published a Scientific Consensus Statement on Environmental Agents Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorder. This report listed numerous environmental contaminants have been “conclusively shown” to affect the developing nervous system and cause a range of performance deficits.
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Stroke Risk Factors May Signal Faster Cognitive Decline In Elderly
(ScienceDaily.com - February 23, 2008) - Older Americans with the highest risk of stroke, but those who have never suffered a stroke, also have the highest rate of cognitive decline, researchers reported at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2008.
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Music and the Stroke-Injured Brain
(MedPage Today - February 19, 2008) - Recovery of verbal memory and focused attention was better in patients who listened to music of their choice soon after a stroke than in patients who did not listen to anything or in those who listened to audio books according to a study performed at the University of Helsinki.
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Folate Deficiency May Triple Dementia Risk in the Elderly
(Medscape - February 11, 2008) - A two-year study of 518 subjects in South Korea found that incident dementia increased significantly across descending quintiles of baseline folate concentrations.
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Effect of Infrared Light on Alzheimer's Disease
(CBS News - January 28, 2008) - British researchers are testing a helmet that aims low levels of infrared light at the wearer's brain in the hope that it may stimulate the growth of brain cells.
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Biventricular Pacing Improves Cognitive Function
(Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association - December 2007) - Florida researchers found that treating congestive heart failure patients with pacemakers or defibrillators resulted in improvements in attention, concentration and memory, in addition to cardiac improvement.
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Surgery Increases Risk of Cognitive Decline Among Elderly
(MedPageToday.com - December 27, 2007) - Surgical patients 60 or older are at increased risk for long-term postoperative cognitive dysfunction according to a study published in the January 2008 issue of Anesthesiology.
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Hypertension Increases Risk for Mild Cognitive Impairment
(Medscape Cardiology - December 13, 2007) - New research shows that a history of hypertension increases the risk for mild cognitive impairment (MCI), suggesting that prevention and effective management of high blood pressure may lower the risk for cognitive decline.
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Heading During a Soccer Season and Cognitive Function
(University of Delaware Daily - December 7, 2007) - A study by a team of University of Delaware researchers found that heading by female high school and collegiate soccer players does not produce harmful effects in short-term neurocognitive function.
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Bedwetting Linked to Impaired Cognitive Performance
(Reuters - December 4, 2007) - Children who regularly wet the bed at night score worse on multiple measures of cognitive performance than do non-bedwetting children, researchers reported at the 2007 International Children's Continence Society meeting.
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L-Carnitine Linked to Better Cognitive Function inthe Very Old
(The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - December 2007) - In a study of 66 Italian men and women with an average age of 101, L-Carnitine supplements administered over a six month period improved total muscle mass and boosted cognitive performance.
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Serum Calcium and Cognitive Function in Old Age
(Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - November 2007) - In the general population, high serum calcium levels are associated with faster decline in cognitive function over the age of 75.
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Older Adults with Mild Memory Impairment Still Benefit from Cognitive Training
(NIH News - November 30, 2007) - Older adults with pre-existing mild memory impairment benefit as much as those with normal memory function from certain forms of cognitive training that don’t rely on memorization.
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Alzheimer's Disease and High Blood Pressure Linked
(Reuters - November 28, 2007) - Having high blood pressure reduces blood flow in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, making them more vulnerable to the effects of the disease, researchers reported at the 2007 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
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'Cocktail' of Compounds Improves Brain Function in Rodents
(MIT News - November 26, 2007) - MIT researchers have shown that a cocktail containing three compounds (DHA, a type of omega-3 fatty acid, uridine and choline) normally in the blood stream promotes growth of new brain connections and improves cognitive function in rodents.
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Blood Lead Concentrations and Child Intelligence
(Environmental Health Perspectives - November 20, 2007) - Children's intellectual functioning at 6 years of age is impaired by blood lead concentrations well below the current definition of an elevated blood lead level.
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Arterial Stiffness Correlated to Cognitive Decline
(Hypertension - November 19, 2007) - Markers of arterial stiffness are associated prospectively with cognitive decline before dementia, according to data collected from1749 participants in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.
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Neuroscientists Propose New Theory Of Brain Flexibility
(ScienceDaily.com - November 18, 2007) - Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist Marcel Just and Stanford postdoctoral fellow Sashank Varma have put forward a new computational theory of brain function that addresses the question as to how the human brain organizes itself to give rise to complex cognitive tasks such as reading, problem solving and spatial reasoning.
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Folate, Vitamin B12 and Mental Agility
(US Department of Agriculture - November 16, 2007) - Researchers funded by the Agricultural Research Service found that seniors with high folate and low B12 status were at a cognitive disadvantage when compared to those with normal folate and low B12 status.
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Melatonin Could Hurt Memory Formation at Night
(EurekaAlert.org - November 15, 2007) - In a paper appearing in the November 16, 2007 issue of Science, a University of Houston professor and his team of researchers reported that that melatonin may be responsible for poor learning and memory formation during the night.
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Are Curvy Women More Intelligent?
(ABC News - November 13, 2007) - Women with waists that were about 70 percent of the diameter of their hips scored slightly better on intelligence tests and tended to have a slightly higher level of education than women with a higher waist-to-hip ratio, according to a study published online on October 4, 2007 in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.
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Long-Term Beta Carotene Suplementation May Slow Cognitive Decline
(MedPageToday.com - November 13, 2007) - Harvard researchers reported in the November 12, 2007 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine that beta carotene may retard a decline in cognitive function if it is taken for many years as a supplement.
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Relationship Between Statins And Cognitive Decline More Complex Than Thought
(ScienceDaily.com - November 8, 2007) - In a three year epidemiological study reported in the November 6, 2007 issue of Neurology, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. have found an association of statin use with less cognitive decline in elderly African Americans and report that, surprisingly, the association is even stronger for those who had discontinued use than for continuous users.
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Children With Alzheimer's Disease Risk Gene Show Reduced Cognitive Function
(ScienceDaily.com - November 6, 2007) - Children who possess a gene known to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease already show signs of reduced cognitive function before the age of 10, an Oregon Health & Science University study has found.
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Hypertension and Atrial Fibrillation Increase Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease
(MedPageToday.com - November 5, 2007) - Uncontrolled high blood pressure doubled the rate of memory loss compared with patients who had normal blood pressure, and atrial fibrillation was associated with a 75% increase in memory loss, according to a study published in the November 6, 2007 issue of Neurology.
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Fish Consumption Associated with Improved Cognitive Function
(American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - November 2007) - In the elderly, a diet high in fish and fish products is associated with better cognitive performance in a dose-dependent manner according to a study of 2031 subjects living in Western Norway.
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Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Does Not Enhance Cognition
(MedPage Today - September 24, 2007) - Hormone therapy had no significant effects on the cognitive performance of women shortly after menopause, according to a study published in the September 25, 2007 issue of Neurology.
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Being Bilingual Protects Brain
(The International News - September 20, 2007) - Being fluent in two languages may help to keep the brain sharper for longer, according to researchers from York University in Canada, who carried out tests on 104 people between the ages of 30 and 88.
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Obesity Won't Affect Seniors' Memory
(U.S. News & World Report - September 20, 2007) - Being overweight or obese doesn't increase the odds that seniors will experience memory trouble, according to a new study published in the September 19, 2007 online issue of the journal Neurology.
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Frequent Cell Phone Use May Slow Brain Function
(PC World - September 18, 2007) - A study published in the International Journal of Neuroscience followed a group of 300 people over 2.4 years. Frequent mobile phone users demonstrated slowed brain function, but with the caveat that the slowed brain effects are still considered within normal brain functioning
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Brain Network Related to Intelligence Identified
(Today@UCI - September 11, 2007) - In a review of 37 imaging studies related to intelligence, Richard Haier of the University of California, Irvine and Rex Jung of the University of New Mexico have uncovered evidence of a distinct neurobiology of human intelligence. Their Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT) identifies a brain network related to intelligence, one that primarily involves areas in the frontal and the parietal lobes.
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Study Finds Left-Wing Brain, Right-Wing Brain
(Los Angeles Times - September 10, 2007) - Scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work.
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Low- and High-Carbohydrate Weight-Loss Diets Have Similar Effects on Mood but Not Cognitive Performance
(The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - September 2007) - Australian researchers compared the effects of a low carbohydrate, high-fat diet with a conventional high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet on mood and cognitive function.
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Estrogen May Fight Dementia
(Time Magazine - August 29, 2007) - Two related studies in the 08/29/07 online edition of Neurology lend support to the theory that in women under 50, estrogen acts as a defense against later cognitive impairment, dementia and Parkinson's disease.
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Brain Network Identified That May Prevent or Slow Alzheimer’s
(Newswise - August 20, 2007) - Columbia University Medical Center researchers have identified a brain network within the frontal lobe that is associated with cognitive reserve, the process that allows individuals to maintain function despite brain function decline due to aging or Alzheimer’s disease.
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The Neuroprotective Effects of Caffeine
(Neurology - August 7, 2007) - Results from a cohort study suggest that caffeine may reduce cognitive decline in women without dementia. French researchers report that women who drank more than 3 cups of coffee per day had less decline during 4 years of follow-up compared with those who drank a cup or less. However, no such effect was seen in men.
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Reading Skills Protect Brain from Lead Effects
(Canada.com - August 1, 2007) - A study published in the July 31, 2007 issue of Neurology suggests people who are better readers have more protection from some of the effects of lead poisoning than those who do not read as well.
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ACL Tears Linked to Slow Cognition
(Delaware Online - July 26, 2007) - A University of Delaware study revealed that people can be predisposed to tearing their knee ligaments based on reaction time, alertness and speed processing in game action situations. The study also suggested that proper cognitive training could assist in future ACL tear prevention.
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Resveratrol Protects Against Neuron Degeneration in Mice
(MIT Technology Review - July 23, 2007) - Scientists at MIT and Harvard found that a gene called SIRT1 and a plant compound found in red wine called resveratrol can protect against neuron degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The researchers demonstrated that activating SIRT1 and injecting resveratrol, which have both been previously associated with life-span extension in lower organisms, can also prevent cognitive problems in the mice.
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Bipolar Disorder Shrinks Brain
(BBC News - July 20, 2007) - People with bipolar disorder suffer from an accelerated shrinking of their brain, according to a study published in Biological Psychiatry.
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Troubled Sleep Accompanies Cognitive Decline in Women
(Psychiatric Times - July 17, 2000) - Poor-quality sleep and cognitive decline appear to go hand-in-hand among older women, but it's unclear which leads the other.
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Brain Effects of Carotid Disease Emerge in Middle Age
(MedPageToday - July 13, 2007) - Years before carotid artery disease poses a stroke risk, arterial thickening and early-stage atherosclerosis may cause deterioration in cognitive performance.
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Mild Cognitive Impairment May Increase Stroke Risk
(Psychiatric Times - July 13, 2007) - Mild impairment of the executive function domain of cognition may represent an early marker of increased stroke risk, according to data from the Framingham Study.
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Hypertension Linked to Cognitive Decline in Older Patients
(MedPageToday - July 12, 2007) - Uncontrolled hypertension in older patients increases the risk of cognitive impairment, Columbia University researchers reported at the International Society for Vascular Behavioral and Cognitive Disorders meeting.
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Repeated Cognitive Tests Needed for Accurate Diagnosis of Mental Function
(Ivanhoe.com - July 2, 2007) - One-time cognitive assessments can make it difficult to tell whether someone is truly impaired, truly improving or worsening, or just having normal short-term fluctuation, according to Cognitive psychologist Timothy Salthouse, Ph.D.
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Difficulty Identifying Odors May Predict Cognitive Decline
(Science Daily - July 2, 2007) - "Among older persons without manifest cognitive impairment, difficulty in identifying odors predicts subsequent development of mild cognitive impairment" concluded researchers at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago.
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New MRI Image Technique Predicts Early Onset of Alzheimer's Disease
(Doctor's Guide - June 14, 2007) - Uing new MRI techniques to analyze tissue composition and structure in the brain, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the National Institute on Aging successfully detected mild cognitive disorder (MCI), a condition in which patients suffer mild memory problems and is often an early symptom of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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Migraines May Slow Memory Loss
(Neurology - April 24, 2007) - Researchers at Johns Hopkins reported in the journal Neurology that migraine sufferers with aura over the age of 50 suffered less decline in immediate and delayed recall tests than non-migraine sufferers over 12 years of follow-up.
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Vitamin D and Cognition
(Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics - April 15, 2007) - The positive, significant correlation between serum 25(OH)D concentration and MMSE in the study patients suggests a potential role for vitamin D in cognitive function of older adults.
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Iron Treatment Normalizes Cognitive Functioning in Young Women
(American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - March 2007) - A Pennsylvania study of 149 women aged 18 - 35 revealed that severity of anemia affects processing speed and severity of iron deficiency affects accuracy of cognitive function.
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Maternal Seafood Consumption in Pregnancy and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Childhood
(The Lancet - February 17, 2007) - Low maternal seafood intake in a study of 11,875 pregnant women was associated with increased risk of suboptimum outcomes for verbal intelligence, prosocial behavior, fine motor, communication, and social development scores. For each outcome measure, the lower the intake of seafood during pregnancy, the higher the risk of suboptimum developmental outcome.
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Repeated Spatial Training in Mice Delays Development of Cognitive Decline
(The Journal of Neuroscience - January 24, 2007) - A study, performed at the University of California, Irvine, of mice bred to be susceptible to Alzheimer’s Disease, demonstrated that longitudinal water-maze spatial training produced a significant improvement in subsequent learning performance and reduced the risk and delayed the onset of Alzheimer's.
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Cognitive Function Boosted by Folic Acid Supplements
(Psychiatric Times - January 19, 2007) - Folic acid supplementation appears to improve cognitive function, particularly memory, among older adults with poor folate status, Dutch researchers reported in the 1/20/07 issue of The Lancet.
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Long-term Effects of Cognitive Training on Everyday Functional Outcomes in Older Adults
(JAMA - December 20, 2006) - In a 5-year follow-up of 2,832 senior citizens living independently, cognitive training resulted in improved cognitive abilities specific to the abilities trained that continued 5 years after the initiation of the intervention.
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Breast Cancer Regimen Linked to Cognitive Decline
(Journal of the National Cancer Institute - December 6, 2006) - A study performed in The Netherlands found that cognitive deterioration was 4 times more likely among breast cancer survivors who underwent high-dose chemotherapy than it was among a control group. No such difference in cognitive decline was found among breast cancer survivors receiving standard-dose chemotherapy or among those receiving treatment that did not include chemotherapy.
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Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Poor Cognitive Performance
(American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - December 2006) - In a cross-sectional group of 80 participants, 40 with mild Alzheimer’s Disease and 40 nondemented persons, vitamin D deficiency was associated with low mood and with impairment on two of four measures of cognitive performance.
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Smoking Linked to Cognitive Decline in Heart Patients
(Medscape - November 14, 2006) - A study presented at the 2006 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions of individuals undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery found that those with a history of smoking were twice as likely to suffer post-surgical cognitive decline.
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Physical Fitness and Lifetime Cognitive Change
(Neurology - 10/10/06) - A study of 460 Scottish survivors of the Scottish Mental Survey of 1932 were tested on the same cognitive test at ages 11 and 79. They were also tested on various measures of physical fitness. Higher childhood IQ was associated with better lung function in old age, and physical fitness and IQ as a child influenced mental performance as participants aged.
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Cognitive Performance in Long-term Abstinent Alcoholic Individuals
(Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research - September 2006) - A study of 48 middle-aged alcoholic men and women living in the San Francisco Bay area who had been abstinent anywhere from six months to 13 years found that all cognitive function, with the exception of spatial-processing abilities, had been regained.
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Fruit & Vegetable Juice May Delay Onset of Alzheimer’s
(American Journal of Medicine - September 2006) - Researchers from the Vanderbilt School of Medicine studied 1836 Japanese Americans (average age was 72) and found that those who drank fruit or vegetable juice at least 3 times per week had a 76% lesser incidence of Alzheimer’s disease over the following 7 - 9 years compared to those who drank less than one glass of fruit or vegetable juice per week.
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Drug Triggers Reversal of Aging Effect on Memory
(Web Wire - July 27, 2006) - Unfortunately, this has only been proven in rats thus far. But this study, which was published in the in the August issue of the Journal of Neurophysiology by researchers from the University of California, Irvine, is most interesting and promising.
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Fish Eaters Stay Sharper With Age
(Archives of Neurology - October 10, 2005) - A study of 6158 residents of Chicago, all over the age of 65, showed that those who consumed one or more fish meals per week showed a reduced (10 - 13%) rate of cognitive decline as opposed to those who consumed a fish meal less frequently than once per week.
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Reaction Time and Longevity
(Psychological Science - January 2005) - The Twenty-07 study conducted in the West of Scotland examined 898 participants between the ages of 54 and 58. Reaction time was found to be a significant predictor (independent of smoking, education and social class) of longevity (defined as being alive 14 years later). A summary of the study can be found here:
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Alcohol Consumption and Cognitive Function in Women
(The New England Journal of Medicine - January 20, 2005) - In a large study of women 70 - 81 years of age, those who drank up to one drink per day had better cognitive scores than nondrinkers. Furthermore, the type of alcoholic beverage consumed did not make a difference.
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Effect on Standardized Test Scores of Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke
(Environmental Health Perspectives - January 2005; healthfinder.gov) - Scores on standardized exams to measure cognitive function decrease in what is called a dose-response relationship (the greater the exposure, the worse the scores).
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Diet, Exercise and Mental Stimulation Keeps Old Dogs Sharp
(Neurobiology of Aging - January 2005) - Apparently, you can teach an old dog new tricks if you feed him a diet rich in antioxidants.
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Physical Activity and Cognitive Decline in Men
(Neurology - December 28, 2004) - A study of 295 men born between 1900 and 1920 from Finland, Italy, and the Netherlands found that "Even in old age, participation in activities with at least a medium-low intensity may postpone cognitive decline. Moreover, a decrease in duration or intensity of physical activity results in a stronger cognitive decline than maintaining duration or intensity."
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Magnesium Boosts Learning and Memory
(Neruon - December 2, 2004) - MIT researchers reported that found that magnesium helps regulate a key brain receptor important for learning and memory.
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Statin Use May Impair Cognitive Function
(American Journal of Medicine - December 1, 2004; heartcenteronline.com) - A study of subjects taking simvastatin, a.k.a., Zocor, to treat high cholesterol, showed small negative effects on brain function.
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Cognitive Aging and the Use of Food Supplements
(The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - December 2004) - An observational study performed in England concluded that at age 64, cognitive function was higher in fish oil supplement users than in non-users.
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Cognitive Improvement for Puppies
(Iams/Procter & Gamble - July 26, 2004; reviewboard.com) - Procter & Gamble will soon introduce its DHA-enhanced puppy food that was shown to improve the cognitive skills of 39 beagles in testing using simple H-shaped mazes.
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Studies Presented at 9th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
(US Newswire - July 19 & 20, 2004) - Numerous studies presented this week demonstrated a strong correlation between the presence of cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive decline.
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Alcohol Consumption and Cognitive Function
(American Journal of Epidemiology - August 1, 2004) - Surprisingly, subjects who reported drinking alcohol (up to 30 drinks per week) were less likely to have impaired cognitive function than those who did not drink in this study of 6,033 individuals aged 46–68 years.
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Cigarette Smoking and Cognitive Function
(American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - August 2004) - Heavy smokers performed significantly worse on a test assessing executive function/problem-solving than non-smokers, light smokers or moderate smokers in a study of 127 healthy older adults.
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Soy Protein and Cognitive Function
(JAMA - July 7, 2004) - A study of 202 healthy postmenopausal women in the Netherlands found that the use of soy protein supplement containing isoflavones did not improve cognitive function.
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Video Games May Help Surgeons
(MSNBC News - April 7, 2004) - A study performed by researchers in New York and Iowa found that doctors who spent at least three hours per week playing video games made about 37 percent fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27 percent faster than their counterparts who did not play video games.
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Listening to Music While Exercising Boosts Verbal Fluency
(Science Daily - March 24, 2004) - Listening to music while exercising helped to increase scores on a verbal fluency test among cardiac rehabilitation patients according to a study published in the journal Heart & Lung.
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Fatty Acids and Fatty Fish Reduce Risk of Cognitive Impairment
(Neurology - January 27, 2004) - A study performed in the Netherlands concluded that consumption of fatty fish and marine omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids was associated with a reduced risk of cognitive impairment.
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Sleep Boosts Lateral Thinking
(Nature - January 2004; bioedonline.org) - We all spend about a third of our lives asleep, an essential but seemingly unproductive state. Experimental evidence now emerges to support anecdotal evidence that sleep can stimulate creative thinking.
Subjects who worked at a mathematical problem in the evening and then returned to the problem after eight hours of sleep were more than twice as likely to solve the problem than subjects who either were presented with the problem in the morning and returned the next day or subjects who were presented with the problem in the evening and then stayed up all night.
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Juggling Increases Grey Matter
(BBC News - January 22, 2004) - A study performed by researchers from the University of Regensburg, Germany and published in the journal Nature found that learning to juggle resulted in a measurable incerease in grey matter in areas of the brain that process visual motion information.
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Nicotine Patch May Improve Attention in Age-Associated Memory Impairment
(Duke University Medical Center - December 2003; sciencedaily.com) - A small study performed at Duke University found that nicotine patches "may improve cognitive performance in patients with age-associated memory impairment (AAMI)." The researchers cautioned that these findings "should not in any way justify smoking, and that nicotine patches had not been approved for long-term use because of associated health risks."
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Obesity, Hypertension and Diminished Cognitive Function
(International Journal of Obesity - February 2003) - An article in the February 2003 International Journal of Obesity reported that "The adverse effects of obesity and hypertension in men are independent and cumulative with respect to cognitive deficit." No such relationship was found in women.
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Drinking Associated with Brain Shrinkage
(Stroke - December 4, 2003; lifeclinic.com) - A study performed at Johns Hopkins University and published in the advance online edition of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association found that each additional drink consumed per week was associated with a decrease in brain volume. However, the clinical significance of such a small decrease in brain volume is still unknown.
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Want better eyesight? Just train your brain!
(Singapore Eye Research Institute) - A Singapore study using exercises that sound similar to our #2 and #5, showed improvement in vision in nearsighted subjects who exercised 20 minutes per session, 3 days per week.
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Education, Alzheimer's and Cognitive Function
(Neurology - June 24, 2003) - An article in the June 24, 2003 issue of Neurology found that extra years of schooling appear to allow Alzheimer's patients to function better and longer than those with less schooling. David A. Bennett, M.D., the lead author of the study called education levels in this study "a proxy" for the mental stimulation that individuals maintain and the ways in which they process complex information. "Imagine if you could find ways to strengthen the brain so that the burden of the disease would have to be extremely heavy before you begin to get the debilitating symptoms," Bennett said. "It would be big."
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Cigarette Smoking and Cognitive Decline
(American Journal of Public Health - June 2003) - An article in the June 2003 issue of the American Journal of Public Health reported that heavy smoking is associated with cognitive impairment and decline in midlife of verbal memory and visual search speeds.
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Huge Effect of Cognitive Training
(JAMA - November 13, 2002) - An article in 11/13/02 issue of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) reported most impressive findings in a large (2832 subjects) study on the effect of cognitive training on healthy adults between the ages of 65 and 94. The treatment group received 10 one-hour training sessions over the course of 5-6 weeks. The beneficial impact of this training was "of a magnitude equivalent to the amount of decline expected in elderly patients without dementia over 7- to 14-year intervals." And, most impressively, these gains were, to a large extent, maintained over a 2-year follow-up period.
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Speed Freaks
(ESPN The Magazine - May 27, 2002) - "The best of the best are the ones who do their sharpest thinking when there's no time to think. Put simply, mind speed is what we're seeing when we can't believe our eyes."
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Cognitive processing speed is best way to assess risk factors in older drivers and can improve ability, says new study
SAN FRANCISCO, California (APA Online - August 28, 2001) - Cognitive researchers can now recommend a tool that can keep older drivers on the road longer and safer by measuring and even improving their visual information processing, an important measure of driving ability.
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Taxi drivers' brains 'grow' on the job
(BBCNews - March 14, 2001) - Cab drivers' grey matter enlarges and adapts to help them store a detailed mental map of the city, according to research.
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Is IQ just a matter of neural conduction speed?
(Going Inside - April 1996) - For 20 years, NASA test pilots have been jacking up the speed of their flight simulators to above "real-time" in order to give themselves a mental edge. By cranking up the simulators used in pre-mission training so that events happen at between 1.4 and twice normal pace, pilots say they do not feel so rushed when they drop back into the real world.
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Cognitive Speed and Subsequent Intellectual Development: a Longitudinal Investigation
(Journal of Gerontology - July 1979) - This article, publsihed in the July 1979 issue of the Journal of Gerontology emphasized "the importance of cognitive speed for subsequent intellectual development."
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Texas Study Shows MyBrainTrainer increases IQ, decreases anxiety, increases cognitive efficiency and speed!
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“MBT helpful for learning disabilities and ADHD” says Marshall University H.E.L.P. Program
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MBT rated #1 by Slate.com
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Retired Aerospace Engineer
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Age Group: 13-19 |
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Age Group: 40-49 |
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