Tag: Cognitive Impairment

Cognitive loss from severe Covid equivalent to 20 years of ageing: Study
Cognitive loss from severe Covid equivalent to 20 years of ageing: Study

Survivors scored particularly poorly on tasks such as verbal analogical reasoning, a finding that supports the commonly-reported problem of difficulty finding words. They also showed slower processing speeds.

  • Wednesday, 04 May 2022
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Exercise helps boost heart failure patients' memory

London: Heart patients who exercise regularly and have better fitness are likely to have less cognitive impairment, says a study. Fitter patients have better memory, it adds. “The message for the patients with heart failure is to do exercises,” said study author Ercole Vellone, Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. The study analysed […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Playing sports linked with lower mental health issues

New York: Adolescents who play contact sports, including football, are no more likely to experience cognitive impairment, depression or suicidal thoughts in early adulthood than their peers, says a new study. Published in the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, study of nearly 11,000 youth followed for 14 years found that those who play sports are […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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