If you are suffering from ailments like continuously forgetting your friend’s names or having problems in remembering some of your past experiences or having real difficulties while dealing with your daily routine, then it could be a mental condition called dementia. When your brain loses its orientation, memory, understanding, speaking then the condition is acknowledged as dementia. The following early indications would help you to decide your next step. It will help you to understand your condition & consult with your physician.

• You can also experience some kind of getting lost within your quite generally known areas like your work place or even your regular route etc. You can also experience conditions like forgetting your assignments or meetings etc.
• Because of dementia you will also get into problems like failure to use the appropriate words etc. However you should not mix with people when you are lacking the ability to express. They could get disturbed when it’s time for performing some analytical tasks (like calculations etc.). However it doesn’t mean that if your friend failed to gather the pass mark for maths then they are suffering from the same ailment.

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The achievement of personal goals is a dilemma which bring lots of goodness to the mind of people, a recent Alzheimer’s that was conducted by Society research published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry has found that achieving personal goals can help people in managing their problems during the early stages of dementia.

The whole research actually revolved around cognitive rehabilitation which is actually a treatment in which people with dementia work with their medical experts to decide about their personal goals in life and also to develop strategies for achieving those goals.

During this trial, 8 weekly individual sessions of cognitive rehabilitation were compared with each other and after that the above stated results were obtained.

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The new researches in the field of medical sciences are opening some very new knowledge areas and one such research has been showed up in the BMJ today.

This research is actually carried by some group of medical experts and one among them is Dr. Benjamin Wolozin, a professor of pharmacology and neurology at Boston University and senior author of a report on the findings, while telling about the findings of their research he said that “We think it [angiotensin] is one of the most important factors determining healthy blood vessels and also acts in the brain to help neurons to be a little more resilient”.

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According to a new study, people, who have significant exposure to passive smoke, have 44% higher risk of becoming a victim of dementia.

Though some previous studies have found some links between higher risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia, the current study is the leading review till today which shows a relation between dementia risk and secondhand smoke.

“There is a link between secondhand smoke exposure and cognitive function that is often, but not always, reckoned a sign of dementia,” says Iain Lang, the lead author of the study.

According to Lang, the amount of passive smoke exposure serves as the risk factor for impaired cognitive function and those people, who have higher exposure, are at considerably higher risk of the disease.

The study has been published in the journal BJM online issue.

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In elderly women, simple exercises can offer the similar benefits to keep brain fit as they offer to keep the body fit.

In this Canadian women study, the researchers found that those women who took part in different aerobic activities had nearly 10% higher cognitive functioning scores than those who didn’t take exercise. Similarly, it was noted that active women had better vascular response in their brain and had lower blood pressure as well. The study seems to suggest that improved blood flow in the brain helps to boost the cognitive functioning.

The study has been published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging Jan. 20 issue.

Marc Poulin, the lead author of the study says: “if you are not physically active, it means you are putting yourself at a higher risk fordementia or stroke.

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