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The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), located in Bethesda, Maryland. The NIA itself is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The NIA leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. [1]
Some say that exercise is the best way to prevent memory problems, because that would increase blood flow to the brain and perhaps help new brain cells grow. [citation needed] The treatment will depend on the cause of memory loss, but various drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease have been suggested in recent years.
Aging and Mental Health: Positive Psychosocial and Biomedical Approaches (with Myrna I. Lewis and Trey Sunderland, 1998) (ISBN 978-0205193363) Life in an Older America (2001) (ISBN 0-87078-438-2) The New Love and Sex After 60 (with Myrna I. Lewis, 2002) (ISBN 0-345-44211-3)
Bryan J. Traynor is a neurologist and a senior investigator at the National Institute on Aging, and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. [1] Dr. Traynor studies the genetics of human neurological conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
Good sleep is crucial for your overall health, but new research suggests it could impact your dementia risk, too. That’s the major takeaway from a November 2024 study published in the journal ...
The difference in memory between normal aging and a memory disorder is the amount of beta-amyloid deposits, hippocampal neurofibrillary tangles, or amyloid plaques in the cortex. If there is an increased amount, memory connections become blocked, memory functions decrease much more than what is normal for that age and a memory disorder is ...
About 5.8 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, giving these life-altering illnesses a wide impact across the country. But while it can be devastating when a ...
Parental health, family size and marital history were not significant predictors of dementia. The research highlights the importance of adopting a lifestyle that supports brain health throughout life.