Category Archives: mild cognitive impairment

Cognitive Ability is More Important than Age

June 11, 2010 – 9:32 pm

In neuroscience news this week, a newly published study by Scott Huettel, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of psychology and neuroscience and director of the Duke Center for Neuroeconomic Studies) attempts to help disprove the myth that simply aging makes us inferior at financial decision making compared to our younger counterparts. Dr. Huettel’s study was published earlier [...]

By Dr. Bernard Croisile | Also posted in Brain Decline, Brain Research, Cognitive Impairment, Cognitive Neuroscience, Health & Wellness, Memory, Seniors | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Living Life Purposefully Might Ward Off Alzheimer’s

March 12, 2010 – 7:13 pm

A new study published in this month’s issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry uncovers that people who say their lives have a purpose are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease or its precursor, mild cognitive impairment.
The study was designed to test whether a positive attitude and purposeful life has a positive effect on decreasing [...]

By Michael Rucker | Also posted in Alzheimers, Brain Research, Cognitive Impairment, Seniors | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Progressing from MCI to Alzheimer’s Disease

February 5, 2010 – 2:13 pm

It’s long been known by the medical and scientific community that not all people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) will go on to develop Alzheimer’s Disease. We do know, however, that MCI is typically a precursor to all Alzheimer’s Disease cases.  For patients with MCI, predicting their likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s Disease can be a [...]

By Sandrine Belier Ph.D. | Also posted in Alzheimers, Brain Research, Cognitive Impairment | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Alzheimer’s Rate Higher in NFL Players

September 30, 2009 – 10:39 pm

Yesterday the New York Times reported on a study commissioned by the National Football League. The findings were a big concern for NFL players.  It seems Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of [...]

By Laura Fay | Also posted in Alzheimers, Brain Decline | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

A Warning Sign of Something Worse?

September 28, 2009 – 4:13 pm

Scientific American posted an interesting article that proposed to put a predictive time line on the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Read about it here.
Whether it’s decision making, judgment, basic math, memory loss  or other brain function, it is increasingly important to stimulate all these cognitive capabilities on a regular basis. One is rarely used in [...]

By Dr. Michel Noir | Also posted in Alzheimers, Brain Decline, Seniors, memory loss | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Better tools for Cognitive Remediation Programs

June 19, 2009 – 2:54 pm

The 5th annual Games for Health Conference was held in Boston.  It was co-sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, from whom HAPPYneuron was a proud award recipient last year. I presented about enabling better tools for professionally guided Cognitive Remediation programs. The slides can be found here…..

By Laura Fay | Also posted in Brain Decline, Cognitive Impairment, Health & Wellness, Mental Health, cognitive remediation, plasticity | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Increased mortality risk for cognitively impaired persons

June 15, 2009 – 3:39 pm

According to a new, long-term research study by neurological experts at the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center, both African-American and white older patients with Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment have an increased risk of mortality.  Research results were published in the June 2009 issue of Archives of Neurology.
Alzheimer’s disease has emerged [...]

By Sandrine Belier Ph.D. | Also posted in Alzheimers, Brain Decline, Brain health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Health & Wellness | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)