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Walking just two or three hours per week may lower women’s chances of developing dementia, researchers at Harvard found...
...National Institutes of Health website characterizes dementia as the “significant impairment” of memory, reasoning and judgment...
...related dementia is often preceded by small declines in cognitive function,” said Jennifer L. Weuve, a research fellow at the HSPH who conducted the study. “Memory, the ability to learn and the ability to focus—those are things that start to diminish in the early stages...
...said Francine Grodstein, the associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School who sponsored the study. “I think that’s the most important part...this is a way to reduce early stages of dementia development...
...Australian authorities are counterattacking. A team of health experts, assembled by the national advocacy group Alzheimer's Australia and spearheaded by American dementia expert Zaven Khachaturian, will on Sept. 20 in Sydney present a "Vision Statement" that argues "there is no time to lose" and outlines a four-point plan for delaying the onset of dementia. If that goal sounds modest, there's cause to hope for more. "This is the best of times for Alzheimer's research," says group member Colin Masters, professor of pathology at the University of Melbourne, who says drugs that could stop or reverse...