The sex ratio in ASD approaches 1-to-1 as the degree of cognitive impairment increases.
The Alzheimer's Association recently published recommendations to help doctors assess cognitive impairment during checkups.
Three of the five were already experiencing mild cognitive impairment as judged by standard memory tests.
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Millions of seniors with any cognitive impairment are not so able to question things like this.
She's now broke and suffering cognitive impairment following brain surgery and a stroke in 2011, prosecutors said.
For example, improvements have been made to the ward environment for people with dementia or a cognitive impairment.
All four victims she targeted suffered from dementia or some other cognitive impairment.
However, the number of tangles was higher in those with mild cognitive impairment.
They can then prescribe physical and occupational therapy, as well as treatment for sleep problems, depression and cognitive impairment.
Cognitive impairment begins subtly at first, but the elder is vulnerable to manipulation even in the earliest stages of dementia.
Sixty percent of those duals who live in nursing homes or other institutions have dementia or some other cognitive impairment.
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Cognitive impairment sneaks up on people like a thief in the night.
In 2011, surgeons removed a large tumor from O'Connor's brain, and she suffered complications that included cognitive impairment and a pulmonary embolism, prosecutors said.
Three had suffered from mild cognitive impairment - a more severe form of memory loss than that associated with ageing but less severe than Alzheimer's.
The mice that were exposed to radiation showed significant cognitive impairment.
Meanwhile, the Allon Therapeutics drug helped improve some measures of short-term memory in patients with mild cognitive impairment, a condition that often leads to Alzheimer's disease.
Second, the elder with early cognitive impairment is very vulnerable to financial abuse from family, from unscrupulous financial professionals, from scam artists or from caregivers.
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He said more research was now needed to see whether high doses of B vitamins actually prevented the development of Alzheimer's in people with mild cognitive impairment.
It can mean handling the bill paying and accounts, overseeing investments for a parent who has cognitive impairment, providing money, arranging for a home care worker, and many other tasks.
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Until now, clinicians have only been able to find CTE through autopsies, focusing their efforts on ex-athletes with a history of head injuries who tended to die after demonstrating some cognitive impairment.
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While cholinesterase inhibitors are useful in many early dementias, studies have not shown that treatment of patients with mild cognitive impairment, which is the condition before dementia, prevents or slows progression to dementia.
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All three companies are also looking at whether their drugs work in a condition called mild cognitive impairment--mild memory loss that may or may not be a precursor to Alzheimer's or other dementia.
In the new government-funded study, volunteers ages 75 and older with either normal mental function or mild cognitive impairment took a twice-daily placebo or ginkgo biloba extract (for a total of 240 milligrams per day).
Understanding mild cognitive impairment is important in coming up with better treatments for dementia in general, because the brain hasn't deteriorated as much as in Alzheimer's, so it may not be too late to intervene, experts say.
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It's too early to say whether Targacept's drug will improve Alzheimer's treatment, but it has been given to 540 people in 12 prior trials for indications including mild cognitive impairment, which is often a precursor to Alzheimer's and age-associated memory impairment.
The concept that lifetime stressors could trigger the development of the disease, or at least facilitate the leap from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to full-blown dementia, has gained momentum in recent years, and researchers are starting to devote more resources to exploring the relationship more fully.
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In a study published last year in the journal Cortex, Dr. Rankin and her colleagues studied the ability to detect sarcasm in 102 patients who had been diagnosed with four progressive diseases that lead to memory loss: frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy and vascular-cognitive impairment.
The guidelines also state that people who have had strokes should be screened for cognitive problems, such as memory or concentration impairment, "as soon as is practicable".
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