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2010-01-11 - World's Best Personalized Brain Training Program - at a discount! We now are able to give you, our readers, access to perhaps the best computer based program for brain building in the world. At least that's how a panel of consumer experts judged it. The program is called Cognifit Personal Coach or Mindfit. It was originally developed by brain scientists at Oxford University in England, and then further developed through Cognifit out of Israel. ... read more. |
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2010-01-10 - Subjective Cognitive Impairment: Do You Have? What does it Mean? Forgot where you put your car keys? Having trouble recalling a friend's name? If so, this may be a symptom of subjective cognitive impairment (SCI), the earliest sign of cognitive decline, according to Dr. Barry Reisberg of NYU. ... read more. |
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2010-01-09 - Ginkgo – Is it of Value for Memory Enhancement? The lead article in this month's issue of the *Journal of the American Medical Association* (vol. 302, #24) is "Ginkgo biloba for Preventing Cognitive Decline in Older Adults: A Randomized Trial." ... read more. |
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2009-10-30 - Vitamin D, Curcumin May Prevent and Treat Alzheimer's A form of vitamin D3 together with curcumin, a chemical found in the spice turmeric, may stimulate the body's immune system to clear amyloid beta from the brain. Amyloid beta are waxy deposits that result from the degeneration of tissue and form plaques that are a distinguishing characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. ... read more. |
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2009-10-19 - Great News in the fight against Alzheimer’s Recently we completed a follow-up evaluation on 32 couples who are working on improving their memory. At least they would like to. From this we learned some valuable insights which may be critical if you or someone you love is struggling with memory issues or early stage dementia. ... read more. |
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2009-10-17 - Testimonials from Three Levels of Impairment As a general rule, the more serious the memory problem the longer it takes to restore short-term memory abilities. People with subjective or mild memory concerns usually see a result within 2 weeks, those with moderate Alzheimer's may take 3-5 months, although mood is usually enhanced much sooner. ... read more. |
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2009-08-01 - Updates from ICAD 2009 New Findings are out on ways to promote brain health from last week’s International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD). ... read more. |
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2009-07-17 - Protect Against Cognitive Decline As We Age A "Heart Healthy" Diet and Ongoing, Moderate Physical Activity May Protect Against Cognitive Decline As We Age ... read more. |
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2009-07-15 - ICAD Conference Results for Sunday and Monday Can DHA as found in fish oil and algae protect the brain from Alzheimer’s? ... read more. |
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2009-07-13 - ICAD Conference News & updates Three New Findings reported Sunday at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD) now going on in Vienna Austria ... read more. |
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2009-07-11 - ICAD Conference News & updates Exciting news reports from the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD), which started today, are beginning to come in. I will begin posting these Sunday evening, with new posts each morning for the next week. ... read more. |
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2009-07-08 - Caffeine and memory impairment in mice New studies show caffeine markedly reduced the hallmark protein for Alzheimer's disease in the brains and blood of mice ... read more. |
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2009-07-05 - Medicaid patients face roadblock to getting Alzheimer's drug Utahns who rely on Medicaid to pay for their prescription drugs may find it more difficult to get a popular medication used to treat Alzheimer's disease. ... read more. |
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2009-07-01 - Website Re-design The first great bit of news we'd like to announce is the launch of this brand new website 4abettermemory.com ... read more. |
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2009-06-22 - Upcoming speaking engagements Dave Larsen the content manager for this website will be speaking in a variety of location in the Utah area over the next 4 weeks. ... read more. |
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2009-06-19 - Frequent web site updates Frequent web site updates to be added. In coming weeks we will be adding many more articles in the 5 subject areas noted on the brain map. Stay tuned! ... read more. |
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2009-06-15 - Mindfit Mindfit soon to be added at a significant discount. If you read Dr. Wells report on the use of MemoryXL in conjunction with Mindfit, you may have wondered what this software does, and how much it costs ... read more. |
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2009-06-03 - Aricept to be dropped from Medicaid in Utah On July 1st the State of Utah will stop providing the Alzheimer's drug Aricept® to new Medicaid recipients. However, that should not affect those already on the drug, if it is being effective for them. ... read more. |
