Yoga – Maintaining Strength and Balance
A University study used customized yoga poses to help older stroke victims improve balance, strength and endurance. The study authors found that after eight weeks of twice weekly sessions, the individuals who participated had improved their balance, gait and...
Scan and Tell?
The 6th Human Amyloid Imaging Conference held in Florida last month debated the ethical issues surrounding the use of amyloid imaging to diagnose Alzheimer's Disease. Research clinicians can now peer inside the living brain using a PET scan to see senile plaques that...
Just Four Questions
A recent study published online in BMC Geriatrics found that four questions from the Alzheimer's Questionnaire (AQ) could be used to determine whether a person has amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), an early risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. While the study...
Love is a Language
"He sends you flowers when what you really want is time to talk. She gives you a hug when what you really need is a home-cooked meal. The problem isn't your love it's your love language!" So reads the back of Gary Chapman's book The Five Love Languages, a New York...
Whitehall II – Cognitive Decline at 45?
All jokes about bureaucrats aside, scientists begin following 5,198 men and 2,192 women in 1997 in what has been called the Whitehall II study, a health-research project that recruited government workers in and around Whitehall in London, England. The individuals who...
The Iron Lady
Everywhere I went today I was reading reviews (admittedly mixed) of Meryl Streep's portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the Iron Lady. The movie portrays Margaret Thatcher with dementia and views her life through a series of flashbacks to various episodes of family life...