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High-salt diet ups dementia risk in mice
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan. 17 (ANI): Beware! Consuming high-salt diet may be harmful as it may increase the risk of dementia later in life, warns a recent study.
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Could anxiety be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease?
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 13 (ANI): According to a recent study, anxiety may be an early indicator of Alzheimer's disease in older adults.
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Exercising twice a week may improve thinking ability, memory
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec. 28 (ANI): Exercising twice a week may improve thinking ability and memory in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), suggests a recent study.
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This hearing aid can cure deafness: Researchers
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec. 17 (ANI): To improve communication with patients with a hearing impairment, a team of researchers has developed a 'high-definition' aid to help those who are severely hard of hearing.
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Being repetitive might be an early sign of Dementia
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], Dec 16 (ANI): Dementia is a collection of symptoms that can occur due to a variety of possible diseases. The symptoms include impairments in thought, communication, and memory.
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Hearing loss in old-age ups risk of dementia
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec. 8 (ANI): You may need to take care of your aging parents as a study has recently warned that age-related hearing loss may be a risk factor for cognitive decline, impairment and dementia.
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This drug may stall effects of alcohol on fetal brain
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 15 (ANI): An anti-inflammatory drug may have the potential to stall the damaging effects of alcohol on the fetal brain, according to a recent study.
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Declining sense of smell can identify patients with mild cognitive impairm
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], November 12 (ANI): Researchers have determined that a declining sense of smell may be able to identify patients with mild cognitive impairment that could respond to certain drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease.
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Radiotherapy may cause long-term cognitive impairment
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 10 (ANI): U.S. researchers have found that radiation therapy (RT) used for treating patients with brain tumors can alter neural networks and cause long-term cognitive impairment.
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How multiple exposures to anaesthesia risk your kid's memory
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 1 (ANI): A recent study has found that repeated exposure to a common anaesthesia drug early in life results in visual recognition memory impairment, which emerges after the first year of life and may persist long-term.
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Teens who smoke pot at 15 or below may suffer memory loss, respiratory dis
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 29 (ANI): A team of Canadian researchers has found that teenagers, who begin smoking pot as early as 15 or younger, may suffer long-term cognitive impairment, memory loss, physical illnesses and respiratory diseases.
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'Enable Travel' powered by Cox & Kings to make travel ba
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 16 (ANI): In a move to make tourism more inclusive and accessible, Enable Travel - India's first Accessible Holiday initiative was launched to cater to the travel aspirations of people with disabilities. A ground-breaking initiative in the area of accessible touri
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