My husband of 31 years has brain atrophy after having epilepsy. We still have not gotten a prognosis from any doctors. He is 57 years old and has gone downhill for a year. He just got out of the hospital yesterday. We have home health now. His balance is gone and he has to use ...
How is frontal lobe damage diagnosed? Doctors use computed tomography (CT) ormagnetic resonance imaging(MRI) scans of the brain to confirm the diagnosis of frontal lobe damage. They look for specific features, such as infection, tumor, shrinking of the brain (brain atrophy), or any associated ...
Prolonged sitting has long been recognized by the World Health Organization as one of the top ten contributors to disease and prematured death. The American Diabetes Association also recommends avoiding sitting for more than 90 minutes at a time. Is sitting for too long really that bad? What ar...
A study in adults with high homocysteine levels and mild cognitive impairment found that reducing homocysteine levels slowed brain atrophy in regions associated with cognitive decline. Treating anemia Anemia is a condition in which the blood has too few red blood cells. It can cause fatigue, short...
When mitochondria become damaged and die off, it creates a cellular energy shortage that accelerates aging and disease. Mitochondrial dysfunction isespeciallydamaging to the organs and tissues that have the greatest energy requirements, like our brain, heart, retina, pancreas, and liver.17,18 ...
Cocaine; Cocaine Abuse; Neuroimaging Cognitive Sequelae of Chronic Drug Abuse: Complementary Studies in Humans and Animals Trevor W Robbins* Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom Background: There is much evidence of profound cognitive sequelae of chronic abuse of ...
As we get older we have a greater risk of developing impairments in areas of cognitive function – such as memory, reasoning and verbal ability. We also have a greater risk of dementia, which is what we call cognitive decline that interferes with daily l
Although muscle atrophy occurs with aging, the fact that there is a variability in this process [10] indicates that there are potential factors that might influence the rate of decline of muscle strength and function. Significant physiological changes occur with aging which may be linked to the ...
Since the aging-induced neurodegenerative process is gradual and irreversible, more efforts should be made to develop solutions that are able to slow down brain aging and brain atrophy [17,18] and an optimal nutritional solution should be able to both enhance cognitive function and reduce the ...
There's also something we call mildcognitive impairmentin which there is a cognitive decline from someone's baseline, but they are still functioning independently. What happens to the brain when we lose memories? We don't know exactly what happens biologically. But you can imagine thatmemory los...