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Like birds which stop foraging too early on a berry-laden bush, a new study suggests older people struggle to recall items because they flit too often between 'patches' in their memories. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-forage-longer-berries-age-related-memory.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:40:01 EST news285323095 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health are moving closer to a significant milepost in the battle against Alzheimer's disease: identifying the first signs of decline in the brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-technique-alzheimer-diagnosis-closer-reality.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:30:02 EST news279880716 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Florida have performed deep brain stimulation on a patient with Alzheimer's disease as part of a clinical trial studying whether the treatment can slow progression of the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-deep-brain-alzheimer-patient.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:46:23 EST news278923576 Women who undergo surgical menopause at an earlier age may have an increased risk of decline in memory and thinking skills, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 65th Annual Meeting in San Diego, March 16 to 23, 2013. Early surgical menopause is the removal of both ovaries before natural menopause and often accompanies a hysterectomy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-early-surgical-menopause-linked-declines.html Neuroscience Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:00:06 EST news277380972 Eli Lilly's experimental Alzheimer's drug has flashed potential to help with mild cases of the disease, but patients and doctors will have to wait a few more years to learn whether regulators will allow the drugmaker to sell it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-lilly-alzheimer-drug.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:01:38 EST news274525276 (HealthDay)—For white middle-aged adults, there may be an association between variants in a gene associated with fat mass and obesity (FTO) and memory decline, according to research published online Nov. 7 in Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-fat-gene-variants-linked-middle.html Neuroscience Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:00:01 EST news271593336 A new study shows that having a high amount of beta amyloid or "plaques" in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease may cause steeper memory decline in mentally healthy older people than does having the APOE ɛ4 allele, also associated with the disease. The study is published in the October 16, 2012, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-plaque-build-up-brain-alzheimer-gene.html Neuroscience Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:00:11 EST news269513181 UCLA researchers found that older adults who regularly used a brain fitness program played on a computer demonstrated significantly improved memory and language skills. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-memory-older-adults-computerized-brain.html Neuroscience Sat, 04 Aug 2012 05:34:21 EST news263277215 Two new studies published in the April 4 online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, suggest that a person's memory declines at a faster rate in the last two-and-a-half years of life than at any other time after memory problems first begin. The second study shows that keeping mentally fit through board games or reading may be the best way to preserve memory during late life. Both studies were conducted by researchers at Rush University Medical Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-memory-declines-faster-years-closest.html Neuroscience Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:00:06 EST news252768019 Who hasn't forgotten someone's name, misplaced their glasses or walked into a room and not remembered why they entered? Normal age-related memory decline affects more than half of all seniors, and those over 80 are the most vulnerable. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-ucla-memory-abilities-oldest-adults.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:51:55 EST news233837506 High levels of a protein associated with chronic, low-grade inflammation in the brain correlate with aspects of memory decline in otherwise cognitively normal older adults, according to a study led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-links-inflammation-brain-memory-decline.html Neuroscience Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:16:05 EST news221926552 New research suggests that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could help detect Alzheimer's disease (AD) at an early stage, before irreversible damage has occurred, according to a new study published online and in the June print edition of Radiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-mri-contribute-early-alzheimer.html Neuroscience Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:39:51 EST news221744379