Midlife Coffee And Tea Drinking And The Risk Of Late Life Dementia

Midlife Coffee And Tea Drinking And The Risk Of Late Life Dementia
Midlife coffee drinking can decrease the risk of dementia/Alzheimer's disease (AD) later in life. This conclusion is made in a Finnish Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging and Dementia (CAIDE) Study published in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (Volume 16:1). This study has been conducted at the University of Kuopio, Finland in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and the National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland.

Lower Risk Of Dementia And Alzheimer's Linked To Midlife Coffee Drinking
Researchers in Finland and Sweden who followed over 1,400 middle-aged people over twenty years, found that those who drank three to five cups of coffee a day in their midlife years were less likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's disease in old age compared with those who drank either no coffee at all or very little.

Technology With A Personality For Dementia Care
The University of Dundee and Balhousie Care Group have formed a unique partnership to create an innovative use of touchscreens and multimedia to enhance the care of people with dementia. The partnership has created a new PhD Studentship within the School of Computing at the University, building on existing research excellence in developing technology to help older people.

A Weighted Communicability Measure Applied To Complex Brain Networks
New magnetic resonance imaging techniques allow brain maps of live humans to be constructed. So scientists can now investigate how neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia change the wiring in the brain. Crofts and Higham at the University of Strathclyde looked at brain networks of patients who had suffered strokes. They introduced a new concept called `weighted communicability', which measures the way information spreads around the brain.