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   Study Finds Women Develop Dementia Faster Than Men   
   July 26, 2015 12:02 am·   
      
   Harvard researchers found loneliness is, too, accelerating cognitive decline   
   in a study that tracked more than 8,000 seniors for over a decade. Another, by   
   the Oregon Health and Science University, found women are at a higher risk   
   than men of long-term    
   cognitive and functional problems after surgery. Baker reported to the   
   conference that the patients who had exercised also had better blood flow to   
   the brain and showed a marked improvement in 'executive functions;' skills   
   such as attention span,    
   planning and organizational abilities.   
      
      
      
       
   By all informed accounts, these are interim studies that merely hint at the   
   possibility that the drugs might be causing beneficial effects in the brain.   
      
   Aside from exercise capability to reduce cognitive decline, the research also   
   suggests that it can actually be more of a therapy because of exercise's   
   soothing effect in our body and mood.   
      
   While members of the control group were shown to have deteriorated in terms of   
   their psychiatric symptoms, those in the intervention group experienced a   
   slight improvement.   
      
   Even among subjects who attended less frequently or exercised at lesser   
   intensities, the aerobic conditioning classes drove down rates of anxiety,   
   irritability and depression, hard neuropsychiatric symptoms that are common in   
   those with Alzheimer's    
   disease, and distressing to both patients and their caregivers.   
      
   ApoE4, a gene variant that is linked to heightened risks of developing the   
   disease doesn't appear to affect women all that differscompared to men.   
      
   Though they were not able to determine why the decline in women is much   
   quicker, the researchers said that the finding suggests males and females at a   
   high risk of developing Alzheimer's might have two different experiences.   
      
   The authors of the new study have said that their findings said nothing   
   regarding the possible causes of gender differences and it doesn't have   
   immediate implications for treatment when they presented their papers at the   
   Alzheimer's Association worldwide    
   Conference in Washington.   
      
   Laura Baker, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Wake Forest School of Medicine,   
   North Carolina says, "Regular aerobic exercise could be a fountain of youth   
   for the brain".   
      
   "There is an urgent need to understand if differences in brain structure,   
   disease progression, and biological characterises contribute to higher   
   prevalence and rates of cognitive decline in women" said Dr Heather Snyder,   
   the Director of Medical and    
   Scientific Operations at the Alzheimer's Association. In addition to regular   
   exercise, suggestions include staying mentally and socially engaged, and   
   eating a healthy diet. A group of 71 older adults with mild VCI were assigned   
   to either a standard-care    
   group or an aerobic exercise group that participated in three 60-minute   
   sessions per week.   
      
   Currently, there are three FDA-approved radiopharmaceutical available to use   
   with PET scans for amyloid imaging, but their use in clinical practice remains   
   controversial. One group of 65 older adults in the six-month controlled trial   
   participated in 45    
   to 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous aerobic exercise four times weekly,   
   while the remaining participants performed gentle stretching. "Fortunately,   
   we're beginning to see some very exciting early results... of a new treatment   
   approach that targets    
   common components of all the Alzheimer's proteins".   
      
      
      
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