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Your native tongue holds a special place in your brain, even if you speak 10 languages
This study “contributes to our understanding of how our brain learns new things,” says Augusto Buchweitz, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, who was not involved in the work. “The earlier you learn something, the more your brain [adapts] and probably uses less resources.” Scientists have largely ignored what’s going on inside the brains of polyglots—people who speak more than five languages—says Ev Fedorenko, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who led the new study. “There’s oodles of work on individuals whose language systems are...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - February 3, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Electrical stimulation of the brain may help people who stutter
When Guillermo Mejias was 7 years old, his parents sent him out to buy bread during a family holiday in southern Spain. Mejias still remembers his growing anxiety as he walked to the bakery, repeating what he would say over and over in his head. But when the moment arrived, he was unable to produce a single word. He recalls returning empty-handed, ashamed, and wondering what to tell his parents. “I was so tense that I had been inadvertently biting my cheeks and tongue and my mouth was bleeding,” he says. Mejias still stutters, but today, as a brain researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, he investigate...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - June 22, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Relationship between multimorbidity and outcomes in atrial fibrillation
CONCLUSIONS: In a nationwide contemporary cohort of AF anticoagulated patients, multimorbidity was inversely associated with good anticoagulation control. A progressively higher risk for major bleeding, CV death and all-cause death was found across CCI quartiles.PMID:34303775 | DOI:10.1016/j.exger.2021.111482
Source: Experimental Gerontology - July 25, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Marco Proietti Mar ía Asunción Esteve-Pastor Jos é Miguel Rivera-Caravaca Vanessa Rold án Inmaculada Rold án Rabadán Javier Mu ñiz Ángel Cequier Vicente Bertomeu-Mart ínez Lina Badim ón Manuel Anguita Gregory Y H Lip Francisco Mar ín FANTASIIA Source Type: research

The Role of Frailty in Acute Coronary Syndromes in the Elderly
Conclusion: Frailty is an independent prognostic marker of the composite of mortality and reinfarction and of overall mortality in patients aged ≥75 years admitted due to MI.Gerontology
Source: Gerontology - June 1, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research