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See! Peanut butter is not all bad! Here is a great short and pretty reliable test to confirm if someone indeed has cognitive decline. Apparently with cognitive decline your sense of smell goes first.
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Great new study shows that with analysis of every day unrestricted moves we can now identify Patients with Alzheimer with an accuracy of about 91%.
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A recent study seems to suggest that the immune system can cause processes that eventually lead to Alzheimer. More and more diseases get linked to our immune system.
This time they found oral bacteria in the tissue from Alzheimer patients and did not find that in the healthy control group. So time to brush those teeth!
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With lots of elderly, the event of going to an emergency room and staying maybe for a couple of hours or days, can be very intimidating and cause a severe set back in cognitive abilities. Sometimes these symptoms can be temporary but even then, it may trigger a whole change in the life of the person involved and their families. About 1 in 4 patients will have longer remaining issues.
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Defining and diagnosing alzheimer is not as easy as one would think. Read the good review about the topic by someone who is just detected with Alzheimer.
The issue is that the definition for alzheimer talks about an impairment in memory and in another area of cognition that interferes with daily life. There in lies the debate about what is and what is not Alzheimer. A good read!
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Not sure how scientifically validated this test is but this piece gives you a great understanding of what our mind is capable of.
If you just imagine how great you understand a wide variety of people, speaking with different voices, accents, rhythms but you get what they say and then compare to the outcomes of your spoken searches on your cellphone, siri, or google, the technology has some way to go to catch up with our wonderful brain.
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