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...that end, Pizzuto is doing everything she can to keep her brain, as well as the rest of her body, in top shape. The odds are decidedly in her favor. For one thing, she's blessed with good genes. But she also finds fulfillment in her painting, is active in her community, eats lots of vegetables and exercises regularly. According to the latest research on aging, those are exactly the sorts of things we all should be doing to help maintain our ability to remember, reason, make decisions and learn...
...other forms of dementia?although that conclusion is controversial. "I would phrase it differently," says Marilyn Albert, director of the division of cognitive neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. "What the studies have done is to take people who are middle-aged and elderly and look at what maintains good brain health...
...wonder research looking for links between lifestyle and a healthier brain has been booming in recent years. Later this month the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia will publish a long-awaited report prepared for the National Institutes of Health that summarizes what scientists know and don't know about improving cognitive and emotional health in the elderly. And the fourth major study on the role of exercise will be published in the Annals of Internal Medicine by the Center for Health Studies in Seattle (Pizzuto is one of the 1,740 participants...
Along the way, neurologists have discovered that the brain is much more adaptable as it ages than they realized. They have determined that the so-called plasticity of the brain, which allows the formation of new neurons as well as new connections between those neurons, can last a lifetime. "As far as our brains are concerned, learning something new or even retrieving something from memory is a plasticity response," says Molly Wagster of the National Institute on Aging. It may get harder as you age, but if you can teach an old brain new tricks, you might, just might, also...
...research linking heart and brain health is so strong that as you continue reading this article, you may get the feeling that you've stumbled into a story about how to prevent cardiac disease. But if fear of a heart attack isn't enough to get you to pamper your ticker, fear of senility just might. So think about doing your heart and your head a favor. If you smoke, quit. Get your cholesterol levels and blood pressure checked, and if they are high, get them treated. If you have diabetes, do everything you can to keep it under control...