Category Archives: Baby Boomers

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” You can see the full article [...]

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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”. You [...]

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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. Read the full article here

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