memory https://www.fiteyes.com/taxonomy/term/237/all en Age dependent cognitive performance affected by B-vitamins https://www.fiteyes.com/home/research/age-dependent-cognitive-performance-affected-by-b-vitamins <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- CALL: theme('field') --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--section.tpl.php * field--section.tpl.php * field--body.tpl.php * field--text-with-summary.tpl.php x field--fences-div.tpl.php * field.tpl.php --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'sites/all/modules/fences/templates/field--fences-div.tpl.php' --> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="cit"><span role="menubar"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25601573#" role="menuitem" title="Behavioural brain research.">Behav Brain Res.</a></span> 2015 Jan 16;283C:139-144. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.01.016. [Epub ahead of print]</div> <h1>Age dependent levels of plasma <span class="highlight" style="background-color:">homocysteine</span> and cognitive performance.</h1> <div class="abstr"> <h3>Abstract</h3> <div> <p>Elevated plasma <span class="highlight" style="background-color:">homocysteine</span> (hcy) levels, also known as hyperhomocysteinemia (hhcy), have been associated with cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative disorders. Hhcy has been attributed to deficiency of B vitamins which can adversely affect the brain and result in memory loss and poor attention power. Monitoring hcy levels and the use of vitamin supplementation to treat hhcy may therefore prove advantageous for the prevention and management of cognitive impairment. With this in consideration, we measured plasma hcy, <span class="highlight" style="background-color:">folate</span> and vitamin B12 levels in 639 subjects from different age groups in two sub-regions of India. Cognitive function was also measured using attention span and immediate and delayed memory recall tests. Depression scores were obtained using the Beck Depression Inventory-II and functional impairment was assessed using the functional activities questionnaire (FAQ) score. As hhcy has also been linked to inflammation, plasma levels of high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) were also measured. The results demonstrated significant negative correlations between hcy levels and <span class="highlight" style="background-color:">folic acid</span> levels, vitamin B12 levels and cognitive performance (attention span and delayed but not immediate memory recall) along with significant positive correlations between hcy levels and depression scores and hsCRP (but not IL-6) levels. A positive correlation was also observed between hcy levels and FAQ scores, however this was not found to be significant. Based on these results, <span class="highlight" style="background-color:">folic acid</span> and vitamin B12 intervention in people with elevated hcy levels in India could prove to be effective in lowering hcy levels and help maintain or improve cognitive function.</p> <p>Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.</p> </div> </div> <div class="keywords"> <h4>KEYWORDS:</h4> <p>Cognition; <span class="highlight" style="background-color:">Folate</span>; <span class="highlight" style="background-color:">Homocysteine</span>; Interleukin-6; Vitamin B12</p> <p>PMID:     25601573</p> <p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25601573">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25601573</a></p> </div> <p> </p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'sites/all/modules/fences/templates/field--fences-div.tpl.php' --> <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline inline clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Related Tags: </h3><ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tags/vitamin-b12">vitamin B12</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tags/b-vitamins">B-vitamins</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tags/folate">folate</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tags/homocysteine">homocysteine</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tags/memory">memory</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5"><a href="/tags/brain">brain</a></li></ul></div> Sun, 22 Feb 2015 06:30:00 +0000 dave 1678 at https://www.fiteyes.com What I'm Reading Now https://www.fiteyes.com/what-i-m-reading-now <div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/what-i-m-reading-now" st_title="What%20I%27m%20Reading%20Now" class="st_facebook_large" displayText="facebook"></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/what-i-m-reading-now" st_title="What%20I%27m%20Reading%20Now" class="st_twitter_large" displayText="twitter" st_via="" st_username=""></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/what-i-m-reading-now" st_title="What%20I%27m%20Reading%20Now" class="st_sharethis_large" displayText="sharethis" st_via="" st_username=""></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p></p><p>Here are two books I just started reading.</p> <p>       </p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416549013?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jaxfl32225-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1416549013"><span class="title">Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant</span></a></p> <p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1416569693?tag=jaxfl32225-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1416569693&amp;adid=1WV9D9AN77NFNGR1Z55F&amp;">Embracing the Wide Sky</a></p> <p>Here is the author's blog: <a href="http://www.optimnem.co.uk/blog/index.php">http://www.optimnem.co.uk/blog/index.php</a></p> <p>Many people learnt of Daniel Tammet for the first time through the award-winning documentary 'Brainman' (titled 'The Boy With The Incredible Brain' in the UK and US). Filmed in 2004, it shows Daniel reciting the famous mathematical constant Pi from memory to 22,514 digits - a European record - before travelling to the United States to be studied by brain scientists in California, beat the house at blackjack in Las Vegas and meet the original 'Rain Man' Kim Peek in Salt Lake City. Daniel is also given the challenge to learn a new language - Icelandic - from scratch in just seven days, before an interview in Reykjavik entirely in the home language.</p> <p>The documentary won a Royal Television Society award in December 2005 and was nominated for a BAFTA in 2006. It has sold in more than 40 countries worldwide.</p> <p>Here's a link to a New York Times article on Daniel: <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E1DE163DF930A15751C0A9639C8B63">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E1DE163DF930A15751C0A9639C8B63</a></p> <p>This YouTube video is how I first became aware of Daniel: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIDMCC2SJek" title="Daniel Tammet">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIDMCC2SJek</a> . I highly recommend taking 5 minutes to watch it.</p> <p> </p> <p align="center" id="video_1759"><span style="border: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; display: block; width: 425px; height: 344px; position: relative; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img height="344" width="425" src="http://www.optimnem.co.uk/blog/uploaded_images/on-YouTube-787146.png" alt="" /><span style="padding: 6px 0px; overflow: hidden; display: block; width: 425px; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 258px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold;">Format: ???<br /> Duration: 5</span></span></p> <p>(This is an alternate link for the video from the author's blog: <a href="http://www.optimnem.co.uk/blog/2008/12/book-video-for-embracing-wide-sky.html">http://www.optimnem.co.uk/blog/2008/12/book-video-for-embracing-wide-sky...</a>)</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline inline clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Filed Under (tags): </h3><ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tags/memory">memory</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tags/human-potential">human potential</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tags/mental-capacity">mental capacity</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tags/reading-list">reading list</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tags/books">books</a></li></ul></div> Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:20:00 +0000 dave 255 at https://www.fiteyes.com