For older adults, driving can mean living a more independent, satisfying life. Therefore, it's no surprise that about 86 percent of adults age 65 and older hold active driver's licenses, and many of us expect to drive for ...
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Pot-smoking teens may not be dooming themselves to a destiny of dim-wittedness, a new review suggests.
Apr 18, 2018
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Three-month-old babies cannot understand words and are just learning to roll over, yet they are already capable of learning abstract relations. In a new study, Northwestern University researchers show for the first time that ...
Apr 3, 2018
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A key feature of Alzheimer's disease is memory loss and losing one's ability to think and make decisions (also called "cognitive ability"). Those changes can begin slowly, during a phase called "mild cognitive impairment" ...
Jan 23, 2018
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People over the age of 65 make up a larger percentage of the global population than ever before. As this ageing of society only really took off in the last century, it's unsurprising that much of what we think we know about ...
Jan 23, 2018
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Researchers from the University of Southampton are to study tiny channels embedded in the walls of blood vessels in the brain to assess their impact on dementia.
Jun 22, 2017
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Stimulating the brain by taking on leadership roles at work or staying on in education help people stay mentally healthy in later life, according to new research.
Apr 20, 2017
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Dementia with Lewy bodies is a progressive disease that causes hallucinations, decline in mental abilities, rigid muscles, slow movement and tremors. With symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, a ...
Nov 2, 2016
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How do you know when it's time for an older adult with mild dementia to stop driving? Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. It can impact a person's ability ...
Oct 5, 2016
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Research from Indiana University has found that structured block-building games improve spatial abilities in children to a greater degree than board games.
Sep 13, 2016
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