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"In those earlier studies, we had found that CFS patients with no evidence of depression were the ones with worse cognitive function than CFS patients who had experienced depression. The way we check cognitive function is to conduct neuropsychological tests. The complaint of fuzzy brain, while fairly common in CFS patients, usually expresses itself only in subtle ways, but neu-ropsych testing showed problems in doing at least one set of tasks: those that require both mental processing and a physical, motor response." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Often cognitive function had deteriorated slowly over the many years these patients had been on a sleeping pill. After stopping the pill, all patients had long-term improvement in cognitive function. Most studies of these medications involve only six weeks. However, it is known that patients with chronic insomnia develop tolerance over time and lose the beneficial effects of medication." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Memory, cognitive function, and Periodontal Disease Magnesium may reverse middle-age memory loss.1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ssociate Professor Guosong Liu and postdoctoral associate Inna Slutsky at MIT's Picower Center for Learning and Memory found that magnesium helps regulate a key brain receptor important for learn-lg and memory. Their work provides evidence that a magnesium deficit may lead to decreased memory and learning ability, while an abundance of magnesium may improve cognitive function. "Our study shows..." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Both acute and chronic low-level exposure to heavy metals have been found to cause a host of problems, such as hyperactivity, aggression, insomnia, anxiety, depression, and reduced cognitive function. Dr. Christopher Calapai details some of the sources of exposure to heavy metal contamination and how the problem can be so damaging to mental and physical health: "We are exposed to metals from a wide variety of places. They are in our drinking water, in some of our foods, even in our work environment where we breathe in certain toxins." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Whether the therapy can directly increase a patient's verbal and motor skills, improve mood, memory, and cognitive function, or increase endogenous levels of neurotransmitters as has been claimed is another story. It is necessary to keep an open mind about acupuncture and to assess its potential benefit in your life. If the treatment intrigues you, it may be a worthy investment. Remember to do your homework." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Neurochem, which produces the drug, released results in 2004 showing that, overall, approximately 70 percent of the mild-AD patients had stabilized or improved cognitive function tests even after twenty months of enrollment in the Alzhemed open-label phase three extension study. The results were not so good for persons with moderate disease, as these patients continued to show signs of decline. Ultimately, the sample sizes of the study were too small to draw conclusions. In drug trials, the process is divided into four stages." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Older adults who have participated in walking programs improve significantly on tests of high-level executive functions such as scheduling, planning, and task-coordination; and studies that have combined light weight training with aerobic activity have yielded even more dramatic results in improved cognitive function. A six-year study published in 2006 tracked 1,700 older persons in Seattle and assessed how their exercise habits correlated with dementia risk." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "As a new generation of elderly boomers develop memory problems, they will already be more familiar with computers, and will appreciate the potential to enhance cognitive function and network with others. Television network for the aging Several years ago, Fox sent me the pilot episode for a new reality series they were developing called Senior Moments." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Neurotoxins, which can affect cognitive function, have been linked to reduced IQs in children. Known neurotoxins include formaldehyde (which is also a carcinogen), mercury, and manganese. Persistent bioaccumulative toxins (PBTs): Compounds that persist in the environment once introduced. A compound may persist for less than a second or indefinitely, for tens or thousands of years. A bioaccumulative substance is one that increases in concentration in living organisms over time." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"It's been investigated for dozens of other applications as well, including its ability to improve blood sugar, cerebral blood flow, and cognitive function. There are two basic kinds of ginseng: American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) and Asian or Korean ginseng (Panax ginseng). Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus) is a poor relative of ginseng and may or may not have medicinal properties; its chemical makeup is quite different from Panax ginseng." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Hyperphagia, severe obesity, impaired cognitive function, and hyperactivity associated with functional loss of one copy of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene. Diabetes 55, 3366-3371. 102. Herbert,A., Gerry, N. P., McQueen,M. B., Heid, I. M., Pfeufer, A., Illig, T., Wichmann, H. E., Meitinger, T., Hunter, D., Hu, F. B., Colditz, G, Hinney, A., Hebebrand, J., Koberwitz, K., Zhu, X., Cooper, R., Ardlie, K., Lyon, H., Hirschhom, J. N., Laird, N. M., Lenburg, M. E., Lange, C, and Christman, M. F. (2006). A common genetic variant is associated with adult and childhood obesity." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Children born with metabolic disorders, "who once suffered irreversible mental retardation, now usually retain cognitive function as a result of routine newborn screening and treatment."15 These successes are noteworthy. They seem to reveal the value of routine physical examinations of supposedly healthy patients. Yet a few pages after lauding the exam's achievements, the 1989 Guide found "inadequate evidence to evaluate effectiveness or to determine the optimal frequency of a preventive service." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Memory and Cognitive Function: Magnesium deficit may lead to decreased memory and learning ability, while an abundance of magnesium may improve cognitive function in children and the elderly. Blood Brain Barrier Several studies show that magnesium does cross the blood-brain barrier, in both animals and in humans.1 Brain magnesium concentrations are regulated by active blood-brain barrier transport.2 Cerebrospinal fluid magnesium concentration increases by 20-25% in response to doubling of the serum concentration, and peaks around four hours after parenteral administration." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Low levels of testosterone are associated with a number of adverse health conditions, including erectile dysfunction, loss of muscle tone, increased abdominal fat, low bone density, poor mood, and decreased cognitive function. We recommend that men with diabetes or prediabetes have their hormone levels checked, because of the relationship between low testosterone, abdominal obesity, and insulin resistance. The overall evidence suggests that synthetic progestogens like medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) are inferior to natural progesterone." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"The way we check cognitive function is to conduct neuropsychological tests. The complaint of fuzzy brain, while fairly common in CFS patients, usually expresses itself only in subtle ways, but neu-ropsych testing showed problems in doing at least one set of tasks: those that require both mental processing and a physical, motor response. (As an example of this, we might ask a patient to look at a series of numbers on a computer—the processing part of the test—and press a button to indicate whether the newest number is the same as the one that appeared two numbers before (the "motor" part)." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Additional studies suggest that higher omega-3 fat intake preserves cognitive function as we age, reducing the risk of dementia. It's clear that omega-3 fats are important throughout life for optimal brain development and performance. Nerve growth factors determine your brain's learning or memory capacity or its interconnectedness. We know from the results of animal studies that vitamin D controls some of these nerve growth factors and other elements that help to establish new connections and create memories. In response to brain injury, these same factors are important in repair." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"This double-blind, placebo-controlled study examined the effects of 13 mg per day of supplemental iron for 8 weeks on cognitive function in adolescent girls with non-anemic iron deficiency. Results showed that girls receiving iron scored higher on verbal learning and memory tests relative to controls. ?¦¦ Aged Garlic Extract Prolongs Longevity and Improves Spatial Memory Deficit in Senescence-Accelerated Mouse. Moriguchi T; et al. Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 1996 February, 19(2):305-307." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Memory and Cognitive Function: Magnesium deficit may lead to decreased memory and learning ability, while an abundance of magnesium may improve cognitive function in children and the elderly. Blood Brain Barrier Several studies show that magnesium does cross the blood-brain barrier, in both animals and in humans.1 Brain magnesium concentrations are regulated by active blood-brain barrier transport.2 Cerebrospinal fluid magnesium concentration increases by 20-25% in response to doubling of the serum concentration, and peaks around four hours after parenteral administration." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Effect of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in infant formula on infant cognitive function. Lipids 33, 973-980. 20. Strain, J. J., Bonham, M. P., Duffy, E. M., Wallace, J. M. W., Robson, P. J., Clarkson, T. W., and Shamlaye, C. (2004). Nutrition and neurodevelopment: the search for candidate nutrients in the Seychelles Child Development Nutrition Study. Seychelles Med. Dent. J. 7(1), 77. 21. Raymond, L. J., and Ralston, N. V. C. (2004). Mercury: selenium interactions and health implications. Seychelles Med. Dent. J. 7(1), 72-77. 22. Fedrick, J. (1970)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "The supplemented mice also showed enhancements in several signaling molecules associated with cognitive function (e.g., extracellular signal-regulated kinase activity). These findings suggest that it is possible to delay or prevent cognitive dysfunction despite the pathological changes in this mouse model and further suggest that the inclusion in the diet of fruits high in antioxidant activity may help prevent the deleterious effects of this disease later in life (see Fig. 1). D." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Nutrition and cognitive function. Brain Dev. 19, 165-170. 2. Guesry, P. (1998). The role of nutrition in brain development. Prev. Med. 27, 189-194. 3. Mattson, M. P. (2003). Gene-diet interactions in brain aging and neurodegenerative disorders. Ann. Intern. Med. 139, 441-444. 4. Mattson, M. P., and Shea, T. B. (2003). Folate and homocysteine metabolism in neural plasticity and neurodegenerative disorders. Trends Neurosci. 26, 137-146. 5. McNamara, R. K., and Carlson, S. E. (2006)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Those participants who consumed tofu in midlife had lower cognitive function in late life and a greater incidence of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. "What's more," said Dr White, "those who ate a lot of tofu, by the time they were 75 or 80 looked five years older."17 After reading these research findings, what do you think of this so-called healthy alternative to meat and dairy?" - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"After one year, Mini Mental Status Exam (MMSE), a thirty-point scale that measures memory and cognitive function scores went from 17 to 18 with donepezil and remained at seventeen with placebo, a difference that was not statistically significant.4 Most common side effects were diarrhea (17%), nausea (9%), headache (9%), and runny nose (12%). There were no patients with liver abnormalities. About a quarter of the study group dropped out from both the placebo and donepezil groups because there was no improvement in their memory." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Exercise improves cognitive function (not to mention your sex life), reduces depression and the stresses of daily life, and can even help you become more successful in your career. Don't eat in restaurants all the time, especially fast-food establishments. When you shop, stay on the periphery of your supermarket, where the fresh foods are found. Then look for fresh, whole food—organic when possible—not processed food filled with additives and chemicals. Eat lots of wild-caught fish. Once or twice a week replace beef with beans." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "After stopping the pill, all patients had long-term improvement in cognitive function. Most studies of these medications involve only six weeks. However, it is known that patients with chronic insomnia develop tolerance over time and lose the beneficial effects of medication. Guidelines from a National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference recommend that hypnotics not be used for more than six weeks because of problems with rebound insomnia, withdrawal, dependence, and other poor health consequences." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Currently, the National Institute on Aging is conducting a Phase II clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficiency of huperzine A in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease in a randomized controlled trial of its effect on cognitive function. The recommended dose is 100 meg twice a day. Vinpocetine Vinpocetine is an extract of the periwinkle plant. More than fifty studies have found it effective in improving blood flow to the brain, improving energy production in the brain, and preventing blood clots. The recommended dose is 5 to 10 mg twice a day." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Patients who received ginkgo showed memory and attention improvements and significant improvement in cognitive function tests and depression. Relative differences for dementia were not observed. I think it is important to include ginkgo for menopausal women because changes in mental clarity, memory, and concentration are common, and it may be that ginkgo will have an increasing role in improving these symptoms for this group of women. Another commonly reported change in peri-and postmenopausal women is a drop in their sex drive." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"In fact, the Physician's Desk Reference for Herbal Medicine lists positive results in clinical trials for anxiety, cognitive function, fatigue, ear pain in children, dermatitis, and PMS, in addition to depression. And in addition to depression, the German Commission E approves it for anxiety, inflammation of the skin, blunt injuries, wounds, and burns. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded a $4.4 million grant for research into St. John's Wort's anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, and analgesic properties. St." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "The Fountain of Youth Genetic makeup is partly responsible for determining the rate at which people lose cognitive function and whether or not they will develop dementia, but lifestyle choices play a huge role as well. So does diet. Just ask James Joseph. James Joseph, Ph.D., a scientist at the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, has a special interest in what we should eat if we want to keep our marbles intact as we grow older. In Jospeh's lab, he's got something he calls the rat Olympics." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Striking improvements" in cognitive function and anemia were noted. Vitamin B12 doesn't work alone, however. Having adequate amounts of all the B vitamins, especially folic acid and vitamin B6, is also critical for protection against homocysteine and cognitive decline. All work together nicely to reduce homocysteine levels and protect against anemias as well as mental disorders. In 2004 the Nutrition Research Newsletter reported a "memory" study done in Switzerland, where participants were divided into groups with varying stages of cognitive problems." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

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