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Alzheimer's Gene Already Shrinking Brain By Age of Three (telegraph.co.uk)
schwit1 quotes a report from The Telegraph: The Alzheimer's gene, which dramatically raises the risk of developing dementia, is already affecting carriers by the age of three, shrinking their brains and lowering cognition, a new study suggests. Children who carry the APOEe4 gene mutation, which raises the chance of dementia by 15 fold, were found to do less well in memory, attention and function tests. Areas of the brain affected by Alzheimer's disease, such as the hippocampus and parietal gyri, were also found to be up to 22 percent smaller in volume. [Around 14 percent of people carry the APOEe4 mutation. The research is the first to show that genetic changes which can lead to Alzheimerâ(TM)s are already affecting the brain extremely early in life. Scientists from the University of Hawaii, Yale and Harvard say screening for the gene could help doctors identify which children could benefit from early interventions, such as educational help, preventative treatments, health monitoring and increased exercise. The study involved 1,187 youngsters between the age of three and 20 who took part in genetic tests and brain scans as well as undertaking a series of tests to measure their thinking and memory skills.] According to research from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), infrequent use of a computer in later life could be an early sign of reduced cognitive ability.
According to research from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), infrequent use of a computer in later life could be an early sign of reduced cognitive ability.
That study only showed an association between computer use and cognitive decline. And what I haven't seen is if folks who are suffering cognitive decline are reducing reading and other cognitive pursuits.
Folks and the media extrapolate too much from individual studies - like that ONE study that showed that babies who heard Mozart in the womb became smarter and all those parents went out and bought Mozart CDs.
And this study? Well we'll see.
I ignore such tripe. Or, at least I will as long as I can recognize spam as spam.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Try latex condoms. I did. They worked so well I swore off aluminium years ago.
"infrequent use of a computer in later life could be an early sign of reduced cognitive ability"
However, infrequent reading of idiotic articles might just be an early sign of higher intelligence.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
Totally agree! My girlfriends all are totally turned off by aluminum raincoats.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
The constant preaching of hatred towards the western civilization and the indoctrination that any failure is the cause of this western civilization starts to form irreversible neurological links in the brain at the age of three. This can manifest at a later age by either cheering for every death after any terrorist attack, or by always asking more and more privileges, or by asking to get more and more positive discrimination, or by simply driving a truck through a crowded avenue where people are celebretating the liberation of the people from the ancient regime, Liberty, egality and fraternity.
The disease is unknown, although some people suggest that it maybe has to do with the indoctrination of an ideology of hate that is disguised as a religion of peace at a very young age. But an UN law that was introduced by the president of the United States bans these kind of ideas from being part of free speech.
The desease is no longer a desease. Talking about the desease has become not only the most awful desease, but even an act of pure evilness.
But I can't help myself when I look at indoctrinated people, who often were indoctrinated at a very young age, and think they suffer from brain damage. It doesn't matter if they are Catholic, Calvanist, Lutherian, Meuniete, Old Christian, or that ideology that may not be named anymore, ... It's followers have a lack of common sense, and healing only works when the fight hard every single day, helped by people they work and live with everyday.
You are well aware that Aluminum foil only amplifies your brain waves to be spied on by the government.
Made by NASA National Aluminum Security Administration as a way to transmit brain waves. Then starting the rumor that it suppose to stop it. So the people who are guilty and with something to hide will begin wearing it as hats. However they found that small doses are effective as well. So they started putting in food prep selling it as a corrosion resistant substance, and subsidizing it to make it a cheap container. for Soda, and cooking ware. So everyone has aluminium in their bodies. What we call Alzheimers is actually just a long term sucking of our brainwaves from the government, meaning after 70 or so years of exposure are mental capabilities are ran dry.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
If the brain starting shrinking again at the age of 3 - an age at which it isn't even close to its adult size - the sufferers would never mentally progress beyond that age. Clearly they do so this article is rubbish from the 1st sentence.
Which is why society is spending itself to oblivion in social programs? Or maybe you're full of sh!t
If you're scared of your govt then you need to further restrict its powers
Vote 3rd Party in 2016 and beyond
>> You are well aware that Aluminum foil only amplifies your brain waves to be spied on by the government.
That is a lie spread by the government to get us to stop wearing our hats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
So aluminum is the culprit then? I've heard that but not convinced enough by the evidence to quit buying reynold's wrap.
Yeah, that AL= Alumina plaque thing was kind of like a folk merdicine cause,
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Totally agree! My girlfriends all are totally turned off by aluminum raincoats.
Replace the batteries?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Aluminium compounds tend to be very low in solubility so it is unlikely to have any effect on us, not to mention it's common metal compound in the Earth's crust anyway.
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You have to use Tin, Real tin is what works, Aluminium is for shit.
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Took some digging, but here is the original study (paywalled).
Contrary to the click-baity Telegraph article linked, the brains were not shrinking -- there was a correlation between the most strongly linked genes to Alzheimer's and relatively smaller/thinner areas of the brain associated with things like memory and executive function. There was also a correlation between these thin areas and reduced ability of the tested children.
If reproducible, this result would be absolutely shocking. Our current understanding is that the genes in questions (APOE 4) are not even associated with early-onset Alzheimer's, only late-onset, and even then the association is so weak that screening is unjustifiable.
Hey mate, spare a sig?
This one is funny. Apparently, the universe has a sense of humor...
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Definitely one thing where being goal-oriented is not an advantage ^^
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Why dont they detect the gene in utero early in the pregnancy so the parents can abort if they so choose?
Thanks for posting this. Why does this stuff not receive more coverage? Is there some flaw to this way of thinking?
If computer use correlates inversely with risk of Alzheimer's, then I suspect that Slashdot readers are going to be completely immune from the disease.
Case in point: "after 70 or so years of exposure are mental capabilities are ran dry".
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
That's why you are supposed to be running electricity through it. Plug the hat into the nearest AC socket.
No, you're buying into Edison's game. Tesla had the answer: plug your hat into a rectifier.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
poor memory is not necessarily a downside. understanding is not just repurposing of knowledge to new contexts. it's also culling of unimport information. and forgetting is a culling mechanism. so this may be useful in long-term study of complicated ideas (the ones which require deep perception).
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