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Cognitive speed training using a computer to generate images and accelerate task completion was able to reduce the likelihood that an older person would receive an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis by 25%, a study by Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s expert Marilyn Albert …

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A novel study has shown that training the brain with cognitive speed training seems to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s disease expert and study author Marilyn Albert says that previous research simply compared what people who …

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If you were asked to learn a computer based task that would require an hour twice a week for six weeks, and it was something you would largely have to learn to master on your own, would you sign up? …

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Working with images on a computer screen on a task that gets faster and more complex may reduce one’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease by 25% compared with a memory task or no training. Study author and Alzheimer’s disease expert …

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When you have to teach yourself a task and adapt to having that task speed up, that’s one type of learning used in a study assessing different types of brain training and development of Alzheimer’s disease. Marilyn Albert, study author …

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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 …

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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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