Cataract Surgery May Slow Cognitive Decline

Frequent assessments may obscure cognitive decline.

Effects of an initial testing experience on the level of cognitive performance at a 2nd occasion are well documented. However, less is known about the effects of additional testing experiences beyond the 1st on the amount of cognitive change over a specified interval. This issue was investigated in a moderately large sample of adults between 18 and 95 years of age who performed a battery of cog...

Addiction Dynamics May Explain the Slow Decline of Smoking Prevalence

The prevalence of cigarette smoking in the United States has declined very slowly over the last four decades, despite much effort by multiple governmental and non-governmental institutions. Peer influence has been shown to be the largest contributing factor to the spread of smoking behavior, which suggests the use of epidemic models for understanding this phenomenon. Here we develop a structure...

Cognitive decline after surgery and illness.

H, Canet J, Rabbitt P, Jolles J, Larsen K, Hanning CD, Langeron O, Johnson T, Lauven PM, Kristensen PA, Biedler A, van Beem H, Fraidakis O, Silverstein JH, Beneken JE, Gravenstein JS: Long-term postoperative cognitive dysfunction in the elderly ISPOCD1 study. ISPOCD investigators. International Study of Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction. Lancet 1998; 351:857– 61 4. Newman S, Stygall J, Hiran...

ReportAntibodies against - Amyloid Slow Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer ’ s Disease

Antibodies against β-Amyloid Slow Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease