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Exercising your brawn may save your brain
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Apr 16, 2008
It also indicates a simple lifestyle change may help protect against widely feared diseases of aging. What's next?: More research, such as a long-term study ...
Lifelong exercise may prevent precursor to Alzheimer's Minnesota Public Radio
Exercise Could Cut Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment U.S. News & World Report
Exercise Can Reduce the Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment RedOrbit
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Ritalin may help seniors stay steady on their feet
Reuters - Apr 25, 2008
Study participants also showed less variability in stride time, which is a marker of instability, and performed better on tests of executive function. ...
Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Neurobehavioral Outcomes In Search ...
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription), IL - May 6, 2008
Vulnerability that may be associated with age and sex, 6 as well as history of prematurity or black heritage, 17 also must be considered in building ...

World Science
Musical genes may be coming to light
World Science, NY - Apr 29, 2008
The work may also be a step toward revealing ?the role of music in human brain function, human evolution and its relationship to language,? they wrote, ...
WAFACS Published: No CVD Benefit in Longest-Duration Folic-Acid/B ...
Medscape (subscription) - May 9, 2008
May 9, 2008 ? Authors of one of the longest-duration studies looking at folic-acid/B-vitamin supplementation to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events say ...
Breaking the Time Barrier
RedOrbit, TX - May 8, 2008
... and also culturally, the Palaeolithic people at Blombos and Taforalt may have had modern cognitive powers but they failed to do anything with them. ...
Astroglia: Not Just Glue
Journal of Neuropsychiatry (subscription) - May 1, 2008
8,18 It has been suggested that this may promote synaptic plasticity within a group of coactivated neurons. It may also play a role in generation of ...
Medivation Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results and ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - May 1, 2008
Also at AAN, investigators presented data showing that Dimebon-treated patients showed significant improvements over placebo in all aspects of cognitive ...MDVN
Aspect Medical Systems, Inc. Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha, NY - Apr 20, 2008
We are also supporting investigations examining the impact of anesthetic factors on post-operative delirium and cognitive dysfunction, ...ASPM
WAFACS published: No CVD benefit in longest-duration folic-acid/B ...
TheHeart.Org, NY - May 7, 2008
Results of the WAFACS study of homocysteine lowering, first reported at the 2006 AHA meeting, have now been published in the May 7, 2008 issue of the ...
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The somatic marker hypothesis and the possible functions of the prefrontal cortex and discussion -
AR Damasio, BJ Everitt, D Bishop - Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 1996 - JSTOR
... Some of those patients may also have defects in reasoning or ... with which such other
patients present may or not ... The idea for the somatic marker hypothesis came ...

Current Concepts in Mild Cognitive Impairment -
RC Petersen, R Doody, A Kurz, RC Mohs, JC Morris, … - Archives of Neurology, 2001 - Am Med Assoc
... cognitive impairment that fall outside of predicted norms, but none
aresufficientlyseveretoconstitutedementia.Subjectswith MCI defined in this fashion ...

Height as a Marker of Childhood Development and Late-life Cognitive Function: The Honolulu-Asia … -
RD Abbott, LR White, GW Ross, H Petrovitch, KH … - Pediatrics, 1998 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... 24-26 Maternal height, as a genetic or environmental marker, has also been related
to ... 27 ,28 Malnutrition, however, may be the most important modifiable ...

Improvement of cognitive functions after cobalamin/folate supplementation in elderly patients with … -
K Nilsson, L Gustafson, B Hultberg? - International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2001 - doi.wiley.com
... State Examination (MMSE) and `A short cognitive performance test for ... homocysteine
may be the best marker for detecting ... anaemia in humans and may also result in ...

Physical Activity, Including Walking, and Cognitive Function in Older Women -
J Weuve, JH Kang, JAE Manson, MMB Breteler, JH … - JAMA, 2004 - Am Med Assoc
... for measuring change in cognitive function is also a limitation. ... of dementia
development 2-4 and may be considered a preclinical marker of early ...

Increase of Brain Oxidative Stress in Mild Cognitive Impairment A Possible Predictor of Alzheimer … -
D Pratico, CM Clark, F Liun, VYM Lee, JQ … - Archives of Neurology, 2002 - Am Med Assoc
... Subjects were also excluded if they had evidence of an ... alcoholism, or cancer, since
these conditions may affect F 2 ... 8,12-iso-iPF 2 -VI (a specific marker of in ...

Estrogen Therapy in Postmenopausal Women Effects on Cognitive Function and Dementia -
K Yaffe, G Sawaya, I Lieberburg, D Grady - JAMA, 1998 - Am Med Assoc
... with assigned medication is a marker for reduced ... disease conditions 77-80 and may
also account for the ... of hormone replacement therapy on cognitive function and ...

Mild cognitive impairment: conceptual basis and current nosological status -
K Ritchie, J Touchon - The Lancet, 2000 - Elsevier
... or is it simply a nonspecific behavioural marker for many ... The legal implications
of conceptualising cognitive impairment as pathological may also be complex ...

[PDF] Evidence from Turner?s syndrome of animprinted X-linkedlocusaffecting cognitive function -
DH Skuse, RS James, DVM Bishop, B Coppin, P Dalton … - Evolution, 1983 - psyweb.psy.ox.ac.uk
... on normally developing children suggest it may also exert an effect on social and
cognitive abilities in ... between the most distal non- deleted marker and the ...
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Cognitive performance in (?) 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA," ecstasy") users: a … -
UD McCann, M Mertl, V Eligulashvili, GA Ricaurte - Psychopharmacology, 1999 - Springer
... Studies in a larger cohort may also make it possible to link cognitive de?cits
to a biological marker of brain 5-HT neurotoxicity. ...

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A Marker For Cardiovascular Disease May Also Indicate Severity Of Cognitive Disability Among Children With OSA
C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation that is often used to detect cardiovascular disease, may also indicate cognitive impairment in children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a new study of children ages 5 to 7.

"Children with OSA have increased levels of hsCRP [high-sensitivty C-reactive protein] and also exhibit decreased cognitive performances," said lead researcher David Gozal, M.D., of the University of Louisville in Kentucky. "Furthermore, hsCRP levels are significantly increased among patients with OSA and cognitive dysfunction."

These findings were published in the second issue of the July American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society.
To identify children for the study, parents in the Jefferson County (KY) Public School system were invited to complete a questionnaire about their children's sleeping habits. Responses indicating almost no likelihood of OSA and those indicating a high likelihood of OSA were randomly selected, and the children were invited to a sleep research center. (Obese children were excluded from the study, because the condition "is now viewed as a low-grade systemic inflammatory disorder, and is associated with increased risk for cognitive deficits.")

At the sleep center, the children underwent overnight polysomnographic assessment and then, in the morning, completed tests to determine their reasoning and conceptual abilities. The results of the individual tests were aggregated into a General Conceptual Ability (GCA) score, with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15

Of a total of 278 children who completed all phases of the evaluation, 73 served as controls. They had no evidence of OSA and their cognitive scores were all normal.

Among the 102 children with OSA, 57 had GCA scores less than 85 percent. The mean level of hsCRP in children with OSA and abnormal scores was approximately 250 percent higher than the control group and approximately 200 percent higher than the level for children with OSA who did not exhibit cognitive impairment.

The authors suggest that an important question yet to be answered is whether OSA treatment would eliminate any cognitive deficits. They cite an earlier study they conducted which found that after an adenotonsillectomy, hsCRP levels in children with OSA were usually reduced.

According to the authors, however, the current findings "reinforce the concept that systemic inflammation is a constitutive component and consequence of OSA" and that the "presence of increased systemic inflammation, as dictated by hsCRP levels and potentially the levels of other inflammatory markers, will increase the probability for decreased neurocognitive function."

ThIs news brief is based on an article published in the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed journal, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine .

Founded in 1905, the American Thoracic Society is the world's leading medical association dedicated to advancing pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine. The Society has more than 18,000 members who prevent and fight respiratory disease around the globe, through research, education, patient care and advocacy.

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