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(HealthDay)—Infectious burden, a composite serologic measure of exposure to common pathogens, is associated with worse cognition, according to a study published in the March 26 issue of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-exposure-common-germs-linked-worse.html Neuroscience Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:50:02 EST news283494678 More symptoms of depression and lower cognitive status are independently associated with a more rapid decline in the ability to handle tasks of everyday living, according to a study by Columbia University Medical Center researchers in this month's Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-depression-alzheimer-patients-declining-ability.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:49:07 EST news282905326 Doctors routinely track their patients' hand-eye coordination to monitor any neuromuscular deficits, particularly as patients age or when they are injured—but the tests they have been using to track this kind of information may be subjective and qualitative. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-technology-doctors-concussions-aging-neurological.html Medical research Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:59:41 EST news279457165 (HealthDay)—Middle-aged patients with type 2 diabetes show accelerated cognitive decline in information processing speed and executive function, according to a study published online Dec. 28 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cognitive-decline-t2dm-middle-age.html Diabetes Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:40:01 EST news277994575 (Medical Xpress)—A new study focusing on how people with dementia become lost while driving, how missing drivers are found, and the role of public notification systems like Silver Alert in these discoveries suggests techniques that may help recover drivers with dementia and prevent potentially harmful incidents. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-techniques-recovery-incidents-drivers-dementia.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:38:38 EST news274718307 (Medical Xpress)—A supplement used worldwide as a memory enhancer and to help in recovery from stroke and head trauma provided no benefit in enhancing the recovery of adults who had suffered a traumatic brain injury, according to findings of a national multisite clinical trial published last month in The Journal of the American Medical Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-neuroprotective-agent-benefit-patients-traumatic.html Medical research Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:53:28 EST news273826398 Although approved for use for treating traumatic brain injury (TBI) in nearly 60 countries, use of citicoline in a randomized trial that included more than 1,200 participants with TBI did not result in improvement in functional and cognitive status, according to a study appearing in the November 21 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-citicoline-functional-cognitive-status-patients.html Neuroscience Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:00:03 EST news272647438 Patients with Alzheimer's disease who suffered episodes of delirium while hospitalized had a sharply increased rate of mental decline for up to five years after being hospitalized compared to those who did not have any such episodes, according to a study by researchers at The Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-links-delirium-long-term-cognitive-decline.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:00:06 EST news264692331 Researchers from the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD), University of Exeter, will present the findings of a new study suggesting a link between binge drinking in older adults and the risk of developing dementia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-binge-cognitive-decline-older-adults.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:00:01 EST news261759344 Older patients undergoing cardiac surgery often experience changes in cognitive function, such as memory problems or an inability to focus, in the days immediately following their operations. While these changes are usually temporary, for unknown reasons, a significant number of cardiac patients will encounter long-term cognitive problems, lasting as long as a year after their surgeries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-postoperative-delirium-cardiac-surgery-patients.html Cardiology Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:00:04 EST news260626574 The brain training computer game "Brain Age" can improve executive functions and processing speed, even with a relatively short training period, but does not affect global cognitive status or attention, according to a study published Jan. 11 in the online journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-brain-game-cognitive-functions-quickly.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:50:52 EST news245526642 Researchers at Tenon Hospital, Paris, France, found that patients with mild Alzheimer's disease whose vision improved after cataract surgery also showed improvement in cognitive ability, mood, sleep patterns and other behaviors. Lead researcher Brigitte Girard, MD, will discuss her team's results today at the American Academy of Ophthalmology's 2011 Annual Meeting. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-mood-cognition-patterns-alzheimer-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:08:41 EST news238748909 Improving and maintaining health factors not traditionally associated with dementia, such as denture fit, vision and hearing, may lower a person's risk for developing dementia, according to a new study published in the July 13, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-health-dementia.html Neuroscience Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:00:01 EST news229780955 A study in the May 1 issue of the journal Sleep describes how changes in sleep that occur over a five-year period in late middle age affect cognitive function in later life. The findings suggest that women and men who begin sleeping more or less than 6 to 8 hours per night are subject to an accelerated cognitive decline that is equivalent to four to seven years of aging. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-adverse-duration-cognitive-scores-middle-aged.html Health Sun, 01 May 2011 06:40:02 EST news223449470