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Ginkgo is commonly taken to improve memory, but a new study says that the herb doesn’t prove helpful to prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Steven DeKosky, who led the study, says: “We have discovered that a standardized dose of ginkgo biloba doesn’t slow down the incidence rate of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease when it was given over a period of time.”
The study has been published in the Nov.19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In the United States, Alzheimer’s disease is affecting almost 5 people at present. Currently, no medications have been approved for the primary prevention of the disease. However, some previous short term trials have shown that there may be a slight benefit from ginkgo for people with dementia. A study finds that ginkgo biloba of worth $250 million is consumed in the United States every year.
CHICAGO – Brisk walking provide trivial improvement on mental tests for older people with memory difficulties, considered as the first meticulous test of exercise on the aging brain. Study published on Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
The results were only modest of this small Australian study. But they support observational studies establishing potential mental benefits from physical activity.
The effects of exercise were not better but good enough than those, seen with drugs approved to aid brain function in Alzheimer’s disease, according to experts.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands: The oldest person in the world, Henrikje Van Andel-Schipper, A Dutch woman had a perfect brain died of at the age of 115 during the period of 2005. Happiness, joking and pickle herring were the secrets of her long life.
The scientists are of the view that Henrikje Van Andel-Schipper’s psychic ability was most likely as fine as it appeared. Alzheimer was observed through the Henrikje post-postmortem. She had Alzheimer at the later stages of her life that declined her mental ability.
There are many of the symptoms of Henrikje disorder through Alzheimer such as memory damage, recalling, hallucination, quietness, loneliness, lack of sleeping, dizziness, anxiety and madness, etc.
