Keeping our brain healthy from birth to 100 December 1,2018 at JCC in Palo Alto California Speakers and event sponsors are welcome. All older adults are invited. 2-5pm, Bldg D room Tips for healthy brain Other speakers: Connie Dello Buono – Health blogger and Motherhealth caregivers founder at http://www.clubalthea.com Contact motherhealth@gmail.com for details or textContinue reading “Keeping our brain healthy from birth to 100”
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Carbon monoxide poisoning and Dementia
The risk of developing dementia has been associated with several conditions, including alcohol abuse (alcohol-related dementia), chronic traumatic encephalopathy, drug side effects, depression, and other central nervous system disorders.9–15 Establishing a link between associated risk factors and dementia may provide appropriate means of treatment and counseling, thereby reducing the risk of dementia and costs of treatment.
Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a common and important cause of death among populations, including populations in the United States, and England and Wales.16 Approximately 15,000 unintentional nonfire related episodes of CO poisoning have been reported annually in England and Wales, leading to 50,000 emergency department visits and 500 deaths.
Chemicals that poison our brain
Forty-one million IQ points. That’s what Dr. David Bellinger determined Americans have collectively forfeited as a result of exposure to lead, mercury, and organophosphate pesticides. In a 2012 paper published by the National Institutes of Health, Bellinger, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, compared intelligence quotients among children whose mothers had been exposed to theseContinue reading “Chemicals that poison our brain”