On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:29:04 -0700, Jim Clark wrote:
Hi
Given IQ correlates with school performance, and early IQ is
known to correlate with dementia, hardly seems like a new finding?
http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb01/dementia.aspx
Jim, given that the link you provide is to an article published in 2001,
you'd think that the researchers referred to below would be familiar
with the Scottish research and publications. Then again, they're
researchers, not scholars. ;-)
But it is odd that the article below says that the school grades
correlation with later dementia has been found for the "first
time". One wonders if these are the researchers actual words.
Given that the Scottish data was originally collected in 1932,
one would have thought that similar data would have been
collected elsewhere and in the light of the Scottish publications,
comparable analyses would have been done.
I guess we'll have to see if the school grade-dementia study gets
published somewhere.
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
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On July-20-15 11:48 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
Don't take my word for it, see this news article on the presentations
at the
Alzheimer's Association International Conference:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11751788/School-grades-aged-10-predict-risk-of-dementia.html
The Telegraph's (UK) science editor writes:
|Children with low school grades at the age of 10 are more likely to
|develop dementia later in life, scientists
have found for the first time.
|
|Youngsters who struggled in school were far more likely to suffer
|dementia as pensioners than average children, while high achievers
were
|much less likely to develop the condition.
Boy, if I could only remember how I did in school at age 10, I'd be a
lot less
concerned -- or more concerned depending upon how I did.
Anyway, the are summaries of other research such as:
|In a separate study, experts at the University of California found
that
|watching too much television and taking too little exercise in early
|adulthood more than doubles their risk of dementia.
I am shocked --SHOCKED you hear! -- to find out that being a couch
potato
might cause Alzheimer's disease. And all this time I thought that it
only
caused
heart disease, diabetes, and other minor health problems. But that's
not all.
Consider:
|Likewise at [sic!] study of 8,300 over 65s by Harvard University
found
|that the loneliest people suffered much faster cognitive decline than
|those with the most friends, a 20 per cent acceleration over 12
years.
One wonders whether those lonely people spent a lot time at home
watching
TV.
Boy, this kind of research makes real confident that we'll find a cure
of
Alzheimer's disease some time in the next 100 years.
Or perhaps the next millennia. YMMV.
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