For anyone with a family member who suffered the ravages of Alzheimer’s Disease, a similar fate may seem terrifyingly unavoidable. After all, the propensity for Alzheimer’s Disease, a progressive, degenerative brain condition, is passed along genetically, right?
Actually, for most people, the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s Disease in late life can be significantly affected by the lifestyle and health choices they make throughout life.…
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You may already know that the human brain shrinks with age, but did you know that it can also grow, at any age? In fact, there’s solid scientific evidence that with certain lifestyle interventions parts of the brain, especially the hippocampus – a key brain area tied to memory — can actually increase in size, even in the aging brain.…
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If you’re worried about memory loss or mental slowing in your later years, you might be alarmed to hear that the brain typically shrinks with age – a change that often brings with it memory lapses and cognitive decline. As scary as that may be, there is good news: Such shrinkage isn’t a given.…
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There is increasing evidence that elderly who have Alzheimer’s disease also suffer from other conditions that harm their brain.
A new study reveals that when you compare brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease with those of control subjects, Alzheimer’s patients have more “micro-infarcts.” These brain-damaging micro-infarcts are tiny strokes that are too small to be seen by naked eye on MRI.…
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Along with our star summer intern, Brooke Lubinski, I recently reviewed the scientific literature on the relationship between obesity and brain atrophy. We found numerous studies which have provided strong evidence for a linear relationship between bigger belly size and more shrinkage in the brain.…
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By Dr. Majid Fotuhi
“Why do we forget things?” This is a question that has fascinated me for more than 25 years. As a graduate student at Johns Hopkins in the late 1980s, I read an excellent book about the basics of memory and brain function by Dr.…
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