Judy George
‘8 extra years of mental aging’: Lead exposure in childhood affects cognitive health as you age
Exposure to lead-contaminated drinking water in childhood was tied to lower levels of cognition in late adulthood, U.S. data showed ...
Why dementia screening is critical: For people under 60, brain impairment appears up to 9 years before clinical diagnosis
Signs of brain impairment appeared as early as 9 years before people received a diagnosis for Alzheimer's or other dementia-related ...
Want to decrease long COVID risks? More vaccine doses seem to work best
Long COVID was less likely to occur in healthcare workers who had received two or three mRNA COVID-19 vaccine doses ...
These 8 risk factors can cause Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Here’s how you can minimize them
Eight modifiable risk factors were linked to more than one in three cases of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia in ...
Loneliness shown to triple risk of dementia
Dementia incidence tripled in lonely older adults who otherwise would be expected to have relatively low risk based on age ...
Dementia risks rise if you suffer from midlife chronic diseases
People with two or more chronic conditions (multimorbidity) in midlife had a higher risk of subsequent dementia, a prospective cohort ...
COVID is mostly a respiratory disease — but it can devastate the brain. Here’s what we know about its mysterious neurological effects
How can a respiratory pathogen like SARS-CoV-2 cause the nervous system to go haywire? That's a question yet to be ...
Higher resting heart rate linked to increased risk of dementia
Higher resting heart rate (RHR) was linked to greater dementia risk and faster cognitive decline independent of cardiovascular disease in ...
Virtual reality system approved to treat back pain
An immersive virtual reality (VR) system incorporating cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and other methods was approved to help treat chronic ...
Cognitive resilience: MEF2 genes likely play role in protecting some people from age-related dementia
Cognitive resilience — the absence of dementia despite extensive amyloid and tau pathology — was linked to the myocyte enhancer ...
