Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia are the most common forms of dementia in older people. Medical tests that are used to test for dementia are laboratory tests for thyroid stimulating hormones, and the level of vitamin b12 in the blood.

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9/11. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The epic tsunami/earthquake in Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004. Hurricane Katrina. The Virginia Tech Massacre. There have quite a few catastrophic events over the past several years.

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Recent scientific discoveries have shown that the body is not the only thing that ages as we grow old. Your brain can also experience the effects of aging, especially if you don’t take steps to keep it healthy. The following…

No one is denying that there are variations of ability among children or that some struggle with particular subjects or situations more than others. That has always been the case with humans and always will be. We are ‘different’ to…

The following memory tips are for all ages. Although memory loss often comes with old age, that does not mean it is a necessary result of aging. In fact, there are often specific causes, and a declining ability to remember…