Word: dementias
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...results are now in and should reassure a lot of women. There is still no scientific justification for the long-term use of hormones after menopause to prevent such conditions as heart disease or dementia. But a shorter course of estrogen--seven years or less--is safe enough with respect to breast cancer and other health risks that it's a reasonable option for the treatment of severe menopausal symptoms. In other words, says Marcia Stefanick, one of the lead researchers, since there is no overriding safety concern, "the focus should be on your individual risk...
...losing year, a tiny piece of the 14-bed hospital dies. When that happens, the entire community suffers. Dickson's most agonizing decision came when he was forced to shutter the long-term-care unit. "It was the only place the elderly could go," he says. "If someone had dementia, we had a room for them." But no more. Now if people who spent their life in Bisbee need elder care, they must leave the area. "The more free care we give," Dickson says, "the more we have to ration what's left...
...Buvos Kocka means Magic Cube, but outside Hungary it is better known as Rubik's Cube, after its inventor, Erno Rubik. THE DEVICE IS ALSO SOMETIMES CALLED THE HUNGARIAN HORROR, SINCE IT CAN INDUCE TEMPORARY DEMENTIA IN OTHERWISE BALANCED CITIZENS ... It looks innocuous enough?a brightly colored plastic widget that could have been designed by Mondrian. It was developed in 1974 by Rubik, then 37, an architecture professor, to give his students greater experience in dealing with three-dimensional objects. It has six sides, each with a different bright color ... The aim of the game is to scramble the colors...
...there's much we still don't know about the relationship between brain reserve and dementia. No one can yet say for sure whether an elderly person's disinclination to mental exercise is a cause or a symptom of the disease. There's also uncertainty about whether high brain reserve helps prevent Alzheimer's telltale plaques and tangles from forming, or whether it minimizes their impact - or both. It's possible that high brain reserve fosters unusually sturdy neurons that allow the brain to carry on as usual despite the presence of plaques, much as some people can maintain their...
...Valenzuela would like to obtain funds for a trial in which half the 500 participants would engage in a program of intensive mental stimulation while the rest would carry on as normal. In the meantime, though, why wait? A nightly game of chess may do nothing to thwart dementia. But unlike an experimental drug, there's no risk of its doing any harm, either...