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Data on dementia published by researchers at University Medical Center, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center

Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, October 11th, 2010

A new study, 'Cognitive activity and the cognitive morbidity of Alzheimer disease,' is now available. According to recent research from the United States, "To test the hypothesis that frequent cognitive activity predicts slower cognitive decline before dementia onset in Alzheimer disease (AD) and faster decline thereafter. As part of a longitudinal cohort study, older residents of a geographically defined population were assessed at 3-year intervals with brief cognitive performance tests from which a composite measure of global cognition was derived."

"After each wave of testing, a subset was sampled for clinical evaluation. The present analyses are based on 1,157...

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