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Mild Cognitive Impairment Can Be Stalled with Nicotine Patches According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that seniors who suffer from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) – an intermediary stage between normal aging and dementia – can avert additional memory loss by using nicotine patches. This finding is very important because MCI is known...	11 January 2012 10:37 GMT

Alzheimer's Can Be Detected Earlier On than Thought A simple test can be used to test for Alzheimer's disease with tremendous results, a long time before symptoms of the disease begin manifesting themselves. Researchers explain in a new study that this test could reduce Alzheimer's-associated healthcare costs tremendously.One of the advantages this approach ...	16 May 2011 08:45 GMT

FMRI Can Detect Early Onset of Alzheimer’s Determining whether people who suffer from mild cognitive impairment will go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease is a very important issue in today's medicine, considering the heavy toll that treating this condition takes on public healthcare systems. A way of doing this has just been proposed.Experts at the...	8 April 2011 04:41 GMT

Vitamin B Slows Down Brain Atrophy A new study carried out by researchers at Oxford University, has shown that daily doses of certain vitamins B can cut down to half the brain shrinkage rate, in elderly people that have mild memory problems.It was already known that folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12, control amino acid homocysteine levels in the ...	13 September 2010 04:07 GMT

Old Age Causes More Memory Problems in Men In a new series of scientific studies, experts explain that men appear to be more at risk of forgetting things when they grow old than women area. The correlation could explain the higher incidence of Alzheimer's disease among men.The most common precursor to the dreaded condition is an affliction known as mild ...	7 September 2010 02:26 GMT

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