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The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) says that dementia is not a specific disease. "It is a descriptive term for a collection of symptoms that can be caused by a number of disorders that affect the brain.

"People with dementia have significantly impaired intellectual functioning that interferes with normal activities and relationships. They also lose their ability to solve problems and maintain emotional control, and they may experience personality changes and behavioral problems such as agitation, delusions and hallucinations. While memory loss is a common symptom of dementia, memory loss by itself does not mean that a person has dementia."

The NINDS continues: "Some of the diseases that can cause symptoms of dementia are Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington's disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease."

To find out more about the recent study concerning omega-3 fatty acids, see my first report today.

Also in the news recently, researchers from Andrews University in Michigan report that walnuts may help increase inferential reasoning. Checkout my second report to find out more about the study that was published in the British Journal of Nutrition.

Finally, in another study regarding cognitive function, researchers found that a deficiency of vitamin B-12 in the body may raise the risk of reduced mental function and boost the loss of brain volume. Get the details in my last report.