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Environmental Distractions Can Impair Memory in Older Adults

RANDI MARTIN (Photo credit: Jeff Fitlow) Environmental Distractions Can Impair Memory in Older Adults Older people are nearly twice as likely to have their memory and cognitive processes impaired by environmental distractions (such as irrelevant speech or written words presented along with target stimuli), according to a new study from...

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Criminal Behavior in Older Adults May be a Sign of Dementia

Criminal Behavior in Older Adults May be a Sign of Dementia – Reuters Criminal behavior in older adults, including theft, traffic violations, sexual advances, trespassing, and public urination, may be a sign of dementia, researchers say. There is a subgroup of people, especially older adults who are first-time offenders, who...

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Exposure to Aluminum May Contribute to Alzheimer’s

Exposure to Aluminum May Contribute to Alzheimer’s Professor Christopher Exley of Keele University, UK, a world authority on the link between human exposure to aluminum in everyday life and its likely contribution to Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease, says in a new report that it may be inevitable thatåÊaluminum plays some role in...

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Speaking Two Languages May Slow Down Cognitive Decline From Aging

Speaking Two Languages May Slow Down Cognitive Decline From Aging (Wiley) New research reveals that bilingualism has a positive effect on cognition later in life. Findings published in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, show that individuals who speak two or more...

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Cynics More at Risk for Dementia

Cynics More at Risk for Dementia A study in Neurology, the journal of the of the American Academy of Neurology, found that cynical people have a higher likelihood of developing dementia. The study tested 1,449 people with an average age of 71. The study participants took a test for dementia....

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