News tagged with elderly subjects

The secret to successful aging

Whether we choose to accept or fight it, the fact is that we will all age, but will we do so successfully? Aging successfully has been linked with the "positivity effect", a biased tendency towards and preference for positive, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Elderly may have higher blood pressure in cold weather

Outdoor temperature and blood pressure appear to be correlated in the elderly, with higher rates of hypertension in cooler months, according to a report in the January 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Study finds strategy shift with age can lead to navigational difficulties

A Wayne State University researcher believes studying people's ability to find their way around may help explain why loss of mental capacity occurs with age.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cognitive problems common among non-demented elderly

Both subjective and objective cognitive impairment are highly common among non-demented elderly Swedes, with an overall prevalence of 39 percent and 25 percent respectively, according to a nationwide twin study by researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Learning from lizards

The speedy lizard was streaking across the tabletop when suddenly one foot hit a slippery spot.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A decade of research proves PET effectively detects dementia

In a new review of imaging studies spanning more than ten years, scientists find that a method of positron emission tomography (PET) safely and accurately detects dementia, including the most common and devastating form among ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists discover a brain cell malfunction in schizophrenia

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered that DNA stays too tightly wound in certain brain cells of schizophrenic subjects.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Elderly can be as fast as young in some brain tasks, study shows

Both children and the elderly have slower response times when they have to make quick decisions in some settings.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Diagnosis, treatment of depression among elderly depend on racial, cultural factors

Despite improvements to diagnostic tools and therapies in the two last decades, significant disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of depression remain, according to Rutgers research published online by the American Jo ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The benefits of cardiac resynchronisation therapy in heart failure

However, large-scale clinical trials have highlighted the beneficial effect of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) in the improvement of symptoms and reduction of mortality, and CRT is now recommended in the major European ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New York state may soon suffer outsize effects from climate, says report

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first statewide climate change outlook for New York, scientists say that the state may suffer disproportionate effects in coming decades compared with other regions, due to its geography ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 12

Researcher finds elderly lose ability to distinguish between odors

Scientists studying how the sense of smell changes as people age, found that olfactory sensory neurons in those 60 and over showed an unexpected response to odor that made it more difficult to distinguish specific smells, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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