Word: dementiaism
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...mind. And that so far appears sound. Messori, who recently studied the history of papal health, says he has faith "in the protection of the Holy Spirit." Of all the maladies suffered by Popes over the past 2,000 years, he says, there's no record of one with dementia...
That was the question on the table last week with news of the birth of the first baby ever bred to avoid the risk of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. There may be only a dozen families in the world that carry this particular gene mutation, which causes dementia and death, often by age 45. One 33-year-old woman knew all too well what the disease does to a brain--and a family. Her father died at 42; her sister began declining at 38 and within five years needed full-time care; and her brother's memory began...
...study lays that explanation to rest. As part of the famous Framingham study, which has tracked the development of heart disease among residents of Framingham, Mass., for more than 50 years, researchers in the 1970s started measuring the homocysteine levels of men and women who had not yet developed dementia. Those patients whose homocysteine levels measured over 14 micromoles a liter while they were still healthy were twice as likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease later...
That doesn't mean that if you have high homocysteine levels, you will get Alzheimer's, or that low homocysteine levels will protect you from dementia. It's not even certain, warns Dr. Sudha Seshadri, a neurologist at Boston University who led the study, that "lowering homocysteine levels will lower the risk of Alzheimer's." But the case for adding folic acid to your diet is getting better all the time...
Near the show’s conclusion, in Eliot’s Small Dining Room, Sheri J. Ward ’03 disrupts and disconcerts with a distortion of the world as we’re used to seeing it. Hints of dementia accompany an off-putting malleability of shape and concept, giving Ward’s pieces a power and mystery all their...