News tagged with elderly subjects


Clue to cause of Alzheimer's dementia found in brain samples

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a key difference in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease and those who are cognitively normal but still have brain plaques that characterize ...

Neuroscience created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The secret to successful aging

Whether we choose to accept or fight it, the fact is that we will all age, but will we do so successfully? Aging successfully has been linked with the "positivity effect", a biased tendency towards and preference for positive, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Shedding light on memory deficits in schizophrenic patients and healthy aged subjects

Working memory, which consists in the short-term retention and processing of information, depends on specific regions of the brain working correctly. This faculty tends to deteriorate in patients with schizophrenia, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Older subjects who regularly practice Tai Chi found to have better arterial compliance

Exercise which can achieve both cardiovascular function and muscle strength "would be a preferred mode of training for older persons", say investigators

Cardiology created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tall and thin not so great for lung disease

Tall, thin women face a greater risk of infection with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), cousins of the organism that causes tuberculosis, according to researchers at National Jewish Health. Women with NTM infections also ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0