Financial ‘symptoms’ of dementia seen up to 6 years before diagnosis
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 01, 2020
Missed bill payments and lowered credit scores may be evident years before a dementia diagnosis, a new study shows. Earlier diagnosis could help protect patients’ financial well-being, investigators...
Exercise may keep mild cognitive impairment from advancing to dementia
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 13, 2020
Study participants who began a weekly exercise routine after diagnosis with MCI had an 11% lower risk of progressing to Alzheimer’s when compared with people who did not exercise at all, a new study...
Metformin may slow cognitive decline in people with diabetes
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 25, 2020
Researchers have found new potential for a safe and widely used medication. The discovery could be “life-changing” for patients at risk of dementia, they say.
Widowhood speeds dementia’s decline in those at risk
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 27, 2020
Spousal loss is a highly stressful life event that may have deleterious effects on the brain, a new study finds.
‘Awakenings’ in advanced dementia patients inspire search for a cause
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 07, 2019
Scientists have begun a search for the cause of a phenomena where people with late-stage Alzheimer’s disease are very lucid near the end of life.
Evaluation and treatment of depression may reverse memory and cognitive difficulties
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 28, 2018
Measuring neuropsychiatric symptoms such as depression, anxiety, agitation and irritability can help predict who will develop mild cognitive impairment, and who will progress to dementia or revert back...