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Cataracts May Increase Risk of Incident Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study by Chinese Scholars
Are cataracts associated with dementia? Chinese scholars discovered through a prospective cohort study of more than 300,000 participants that cataracts can lead to structural changes and a reduction in size of the hippocampus, an important brain region associated with the visual cortex and cognition. Their research indicated that timely surgical treatment for cataract patients is […]
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Good Sleep, More Physical Activity, Fewer Sedentary Behaviors Can Reduce Risk of Dementia by 41%: A Cohort Study
Chinese medical experts discovered through a cohort study including more than 430,000 participants (median follow-up 9.0 years) that a combination of seven hours of sleep/day, moderate-to-high leisure-time physical activity (LPTA), and low-to-moderate sedentary behavior can reduce the risk of dementia by 41%. These three types of regulatory behaviors have a combined effect over the risk […]
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National Eyecare Day Seminar: Using transcription, cells and computation to analyze visual performance and abnormality
The 6th of June marked 2022 National Eyecare Day in China and the successful launch of a webinar on “Using transcription, cells and computation to analyze visual performance and abnormality”. The webinar was the first session of a series of online seminars celebrating “National Science and Technology Workers’ Day” created by the Chinese Neuroscience Society. […]
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TCCI® Investigator Jintai Yu’s Team Reveals New Approach to Prevent Dementia, Insomnia and Depression
Recently, Jintai Yu, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute Investigator and professor from Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital and his team jointly published a paper titled “Time spent in outdoor light is associated with the risk of dementia: a prospective cohort study of 362094 participants” on BMC Medicine, in collaboration with Professor Lan Tan’s team from Qingdao […]