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Does having to figure things out on your own protect your brain better than other kinds of activities? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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People who received memory and reasoning training or those who didn’t receive any brain training were more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease twenty years down the road than those who did cognitive speed training, which required them to …
What exactly is cognitive speed training? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Among a cohort of 2800 people, those who received cognitive speed training compared to usual care or memory and reasoning training we less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 20 years later. That’s according to a study by Johns …
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If you’re looking to preserve brain health doing cognitive speed training may be best, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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If you’re like many people you’d rather not develop dementia, so a new study demonstrating the benefits of a computer based intervention called cognitive speed training may interest you. Marilyn Albert, study author and Alzheimer’s disease expert at Johns Hopkins, …
What does 20 years of follow up tell us about activities to protect the brain? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Is it possible to make personal changes to stave off dementia and preserve independence? Elizabeth Tracey reports
What is an assembloid? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Brain organoids, cell collections grown in a lab to study diseases like Alzheimer’s, have created excitement because they are a bit more representative of a real brain. Johns Hopkins cell engineering expert Vasiliki Machairaki says there is another technique underway …