Maintaining Brain Health as You Age, and How Cognitive Interaction Can Help Individuals Suffering from Alzheimer’s and Other Forms of Dementia This one hour presentation will combine a general introduction to the aging brain, brain plasticity and cognitive reserve...
The social and economic costs of dementia are enormous, more than the costs of stroke, heart disease and cancer combined. Yet as a society we spend billions on research in these areas and comparatively little on dementia. Why is that? Is it because we feel helpless in...
An important national telephone survey on the mistreatment of seniors (55+), including personal safety issues, is being conducted by NICE (National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly) until the end of June. Fit Minds encourages older adults to consider...
A study to be published on June 28th in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease suggests that drinking coffee in moderate amounts (4 to 5 cups a day) can protect an individual from the development of Alzheimer’s Disease. The research team has concluded that a...
Having ‘The Talk’ with mom and dad in your 40’s can be just as uncomfortable as it was when you were in your teens. The topic is different now – but still fraught with all kinds of unexpressed emotions. I’m referring to the talk about...
Tom Gunnels’ grandmother has dementia. He recently wrote an 8,000 word essay about her disease and how it has affected his family, ending up as one of five national finalists in the 2010 Norman Mailer College Writing Awards for Creative Nonfiction. The effect of...
Scientists developing treatments for the devastating brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) have unexpectedly blocked the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia through the use of two antibodies. These two antibodies, ICSM 18 and...
A fascinating experiment has Alzheimer Research heading off in a new direction. Stuart Feinstein, professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and co-director of UCSB’s Neuroscience Research Institute, and his research team found that when they...
Cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok spoke to the New York Times about her 40 years of research into the benefits of bilingualism and its role in delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. Her conclusion is essentially that through using two languages...
Dr. Marc E. Agronin, a geriatric psychiatrist and mental health director for the Miami Jewish Health Systems was featured in The New York Times Sunday edition. The focus of the article is on the work he does with caregivers. The highlight of the article are the...
