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Depression at any stage of life tied to increased dementia risk
The double risk persists regardless of when in life depression is diagnosed.
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Medicare to pay for at-home dementia care coordination
The program is voluntary and will be open to Medicare-enrolled clinicians and other providers who can assemble an interdisciplinary care team and...
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New Alzheimer’s drugs: Setting realistic expectations
Most patients living with Alzheimer’s disease will not qualify for treatment with these drugs, and those who do may suffer serious side effects....
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No cognitive benefit from meditation, learning a language?
The findings contradict the researchers’ earlier work that found mindfulness meditation boosted cognitive function in older adults with subjective...
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Cognitive benefit of highly touted MIND diet questioned
“Although we did not see a specific effect of the MIND diet, people in both groups improved their cognitive function.”
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Chronic constipation linked to cognitive decline
“These results stress the importance of clinicians discussing gut health, especially constipation, with their older patients.”
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Hearing loss tied to more fatigue in middle and older age
Each 10 dB of audiometric hearing loss was associated with a higher likelihood of reporting fatigue nearly every day.
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Smartwatches able to detect very early signs of Parkinson’s
With these results we could develop a valuable screening tool to aid in the early detection of Parkinson's," one of the investigators said.
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Coffee’s brain-boosting effect goes beyond caffeine
Researchers investigated the neurobiological impact of coffee drinking on brain connectivity using resting-state functional MRI.
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Long COVID ‘brain fog’ confounds doctors, but new research offers hope
Brain fog is among the most common symptoms of long COVID, and also one of the most poorly understood.