Quotes About Cognitive decline

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.

Maybe when their minds go, they're not themselves anymore. Maybe the Newt we know is gone and he's not aware of what's happening to him. So really, he's not suffering." Minho almost looked offended by the notion. "Nice try, slinthead, but I don't believe it. I think he'll always be there just enough to be screaming on the inside, deranged and suffering every shuck second of it. Tormented like a dude buried alive.

It's a funny thing. When you're tired, general cognitive ability drops. There's scientific evidence to back that up, no question. Because you're slacking off, some other part of your brain—the base, the lizard, the id, whatever you want to call it—tries to compensate. Eighty-five percent brain-dead, fifteen-percent instinctive genius.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.

As reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2013, even slight elevations of blood sugar that are far below the diabetes range have been shown to significantly increase the risk for the development of untreatable dementia.7

There are around six million people with Alzheimer's in the United States.

Most Alzheimer's sufferers aren't diagnosed until their 70s. However, we now know that their brains began deteriorating long before that.

Las lesiones cerebrales pueden arruinarnos la vida. El alcohol no es sano, lo demuestran las lesiones graves que se aprecian en las imágenes de SPECT. Algunos medicamentos que solemos tomar, como los ansiolíticos comunes, no son buenos para el cerebro. Enfermedades como el Alzheimer empiezan en el cerebro décadas antes de manifestarse los síntomas.

Tristan [Harris] believes that what we are seeing is 'the collective downgrading of humans and the upgrading of machines'. We are becoming less rational, less intelligent, less focused.

The study found that "technological distraction"—just getting emails and calls—caused a drop in the workers' IQ by an average of ten points. To give you a sense of how big that is: in the short term, that's twice the knock to your IQ that you get when you smoke cannabis. So this suggests, in terms of being able to get your work done, you'd be better off getting stoned at your desk than checking your texts and Facebook messages

Nutritional deficiencies of omega 3 essential fatty acids, vitamin D, antioxidants, minerals and some amino acids can lead to chemical imbalances in the brain which can lead to emotional illness and cognitive decline. Deficiencies of folic acid and vitamin B6 can predispose an individual to depression, and cause that individual to not respond to antidepressant medication.

I don't know a great deal about Alzheimer's - just what it does.

physical inactivity has been calculated to be the most significant risk factor in cognitive decline and the development of dementia.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Aerobic exercise just twice a week halves your risk of general dementia. It cuts your risk of alzheimer's by 60 percent.

With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.

Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.

Even our brains shrink: at the age of thirty, the brain is a three-pound organ that barely fits inside the skull; by our seventies, gray-matter loss leaves almost an inch of spare room.

The earliest portions to shrink are generally the frontal lobes, which govern judgment and planning, and the hippocampus, where memory is organized. As a consequence, memory and the ability to gather and weigh multiple ideas—to multitask—peaks in midlife and then gradually declines.

No," I said, "I don't remember." But my best guess is, so far at least, that I only have Sometimer's, not Alzheimer's.

Trauma breaks your brain—makes it atrophy forever. The damage is not metaphorical but physical. The most severely affected tissue is the left superior parietal lobule, associated with memory, language, and the ability to orient oneself in the world. The lobule shrinks.