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Always stay in touch – How speech therapy helps people with dementia and their families

Always stay in touch – How speech therapy helps people with dementia and their families

By Kerstin Groß-Steinmeyer|2020-11-24T18:15:24+01:0025. November 2020|Categories: forms of treatment, prevention, therapists|

With the project ‘Knowledge stops Dementia’, the Deutsche Stiftung für Gesundheitsinformation und Prävention, together with the Akademie für menschliche Medizin, presents a broad spectrum of measures to prevent the development of dementia. Within preventive measures, speech therapy offers an important therapeutic component that enables dementia patients to maintain contact with their environment. Especially in the early stages of the disease, no time should be lost and no one should hesitate to seek speech therapy treatment.

Gut microbiome and Alzheimer’s disease

Gut microbiome and Alzheimer’s disease

By Kerstin Groß-Steinmeyer|2020-11-04T08:31:04+01:004. November 2020|Categories: causes, forms of treatment, nutrition, prevention, Prevention|

The fact that our health begins in the gut has been known for thousands of years. Today it is clear that our intestines are more than just a "digestive tube", as this important organ fulfils a variety of other functions. For example, a disturbance of gut health is directly related to the development of chronic diseases. The intestinal flora, i.e. the microbial colonization of the intestinal mucosa, plays a particularly important role in this process. The intestinal flora is also known as the 'intestinal microbiota'. It is the most important part of our immune system and thus offers us effective protection against infection.

Lifespan cognitive reserve is a protective factor against dementia

Lifespan cognitive reserve is a protective factor against dementia

By Jens Brünnler|2020-10-13T14:37:52+02:0014. October 2020|Categories: causes, prevention|

Not everyone grows old the same way. The occurrence of dementia is also not the same in every person. While some people can live longer with good cognitive function and no signs of memory loss (even in the presence of severe neurological disease), others suffer from cognitive and memory impairment without so many brain damages in neurological tests.

On the week of dementia 2020 – 12 ways to prevent dementia

On the week of dementia 2020 – 12 ways to prevent dementia

By Jens Brünnler|2020-09-21T20:08:17+02:0021. September 2020|Categories: causes, nutrition, prevention, uncategorized|

The 2020 report of the Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care lists 12 modifiable risk factors that could help prevent dementia. This new report provides some important updates to the previous document, published in 2017.

New blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease predict pathological brain changes early

New blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease predict pathological brain changes early

By Jens Brünnler|2020-08-11T18:55:47+02:0012. August 2020|Categories: causes, clinical trial, prevention|

The diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has challenged neurologists for many years. It’s difficult to determine if someone will develop AD in the future, if the actual cognitive deficit is due to AD or to other cause of dementia and it’s also difficult to predict the pace or speed of disease progression.

Alzheimer gene triggers early collapse of the blood-brain barrier and predicts cognitive decline

Alzheimer gene triggers early collapse of the blood-brain barrier and predicts cognitive decline

By Kerstin Groß-Steinmeyer|2020-08-01T19:45:16+02:0015. July 2020|Categories: causes, prevention|

Although scientists have known for a long time that apolipoprotein E4 is a leading genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, it has long been unknown how exactly it leads to memory loss. US researchers now believe they have an answer.

Against any narrow-minded Ignorance: Intervention Studies and Information Sources on Dementia

Against any narrow-minded Ignorance: Intervention Studies and Information Sources on Dementia

By Anno Jordan|2020-06-16T18:56:03+02:0017. June 2020|Categories: causes, clinical trial, forms of treatment, prevention|Tags: Interventions, Research, Treatment|

You go to a doctor - usually a neurologist - ask about natural or lifestyle-oriented therapeutic methods for dementia - and you often look into blank eyes, at worst into an aggressively wrinkled forehead "Don't give me that, all dangerous nonsense, there are only a few pharmacological approaches that may really work!"

Long-term healthy diet may preserve memory

Long-term healthy diet may preserve memory

By Kerstin Groß-Steinmeyer|2020-04-27T14:44:20+02:0029. April 2020|Categories: causes, clinical trial, nutrition, prevention|

A study published in The American Journal of Medicine 2018, has demonstrated that maintaining a healthy diet in midlife is independently associated with a larger hippocampus years later and may protect against cognitive decline. The hippocampus is a structure located in the temporal lobe of each brain hemisphere and is directly involved in the process of memory. The volume of the hippocampus can be determined by brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Decreasing of its volume is related to cognitive impairment and is used in clinical practice for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (hippocampus atrophy).

The brain cleaning system: how sleep can improve brain health and prevent AD

The brain cleaning system: how sleep can improve brain health and prevent AD

By Jens Brünnler|2020-01-30T08:51:42+01:0029. January 2020|Categories: causes, prevention|

Although known to be essential for all animals with nervous system, the main cellular function of sleep is still unknown. Prolonged sleep deprivation can be lethal, and sleep disturbances are associated with various deficiencies in brain performance.