Category Archives: Baby Boomers

Loneliness Could Boost Alzheimer’s Risk

February 6, 2007 – 2:34 pm

Researchers at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have assessed loneliness and dementia. 
“In human beings, loneliness has been associated with impaired social skills. Thus, neural systems underlying social behavior might be less elaborated in lonely persons and, as a result, be less able to compensate for other neural systems compromised by age-related neuropathy,”
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You are only as old as you think you are

January 31, 2007 – 3:48 pm

We found this post that mentions Dr. Paul Nussbaum’s approach to brain health. Dr. Nussbaum does a great job of communicating the importance of a fit brain to the public
Dr. Nussbaum says that a healthy lifestyle characterized by socialization, physical activity, mental activity, spirituality, and nutrition leads to improved brain health. Individuals should reduce their caloric [...]

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Learning Slows Physical Progression Of Alzheimer’s Disease

January 25, 2007 – 12:17 pm

Another study showing the impact of learning on our brains.
“These remarkable findings suggest stimulating the mind with activities such as reading books or completing crossword puzzles may help delay and/or prevent Alzheimer’s disease in senior citizens.”
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Bilingualism delays onset of dementia: study

January 22, 2007 – 12:12 pm

Here is another study on the benefits of studying another language.
“If you have two languages in your brain, you need a way to keep them straight, otherwise you might say the wrong thing,” she said. It’s one of the things that often goes wrong with people suffering from dementia. They can no longer control their [...]

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Resolve to Exercise Your Brain

January 3, 2007 – 3:48 pm

The Alliance for Aging Research is encouraging Americans to boost their brain health.
“There is a lot we can do to keep our brains healthy and potentially prevent or lessen the cognitive decline that often comes with aging,” Daniel Perry, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance for Aging Research”
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Exercise Appears To Improve Brain Function

December 22, 2006 – 3:45 pm

Here is another report that links exercise and the brain.
“Physical activity may be beneficial to cognition during early and middle periods of the human lifespan and may continue to protect against age-related loss of cognitive function during older adulthood”.
You can see this story in full here 

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Mental Exercise Helps Maintain Thinking Skills

December 21, 2006 – 1:45 pm

Here is a great new study that supports what we are doing at Happy Neuron.
Certain mental exercises can offset some of the expected decline in older adults’ thinking skills and show promise for maintaining cognitive abilities needed to do everyday tasks such as shopping, making meals and handling finances, according to a new study.
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Alzheimer’s now claiming younger individuals

December 19, 2006 – 2:44 pm

A good article over at US News and World Report on how cognitive decline is impacting people under 65.
“Several hundred thousand people–perhaps as many as 640,000–under the age of 65 who have dementia, the vicious thief of minds that steals memories, personality, relationships, language, and ultimately the ability to function as a human being”.
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Possible fingerprint of Alzheimer’s found

December 12, 2006 – 1:00 pm

Here is an interesting article on a new development in the fight against Alzheimer’s.
Scientists appear to have found a fingerprint of Alzheimer’s disease lurking in patients’ spinal fluid, a step toward a long-awaited test for the memory-robbing disease that today can be diagnosed definitively only at autopsy.
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