{"id":3728,"date":"2012-07-03T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2012-07-02T10:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:45:36","slug":"protecting-the-aging-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/general\/protecting-the-aging-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting the Aging Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted on Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists &amp; Audiologists, June 20, 2012<\/p>\n<p>New data from the Rush Memory and Aging Project provide more evidence that staying physically active may protect the aging brain from Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p>In a group of more than 700 elderly individuals free of dementia at baseline, a higher level of total daily physical activity, determined objectively via 24-hour actigraphy, was associated with a lower risk for the subsequent development of AD, as well as a slower rate of cognitive decline.<\/p>\n<p>The association remained &#8220;robust&#8221; after accounting for a wide variety of potentially confounding factors, and supports efforts to encourage physical activity even in the very old, conclude Aron S. Buchman, MD, from the Rush Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, and colleagues&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/speech-language-pathology-audiology.advanceweb.com\/Features\/Articles\/Physical-Activity-Protects-the-Aging-Brain.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to visit the Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists &amp; Audiologists website to read the rest of the article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted on Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists &amp; Audiologists, June 20, 2012 New data from the Rush Memory and Aging Project provide more evidence that staying physically active may protect the aging brain from Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. In a group of more than 700 elderly individuals free of dementia at baseline, a higher level of total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}