Thursday, March 25, 2010

What Are The Treatments For Macular Degeneration? | LIVESTRONG.COM

What Are The Treatments For Macular Degeneration?. Age-related macular degeneration ARMD is a progressive disease that causes loss of central vision. The dry form causes blurriness that may be mild or severe. During the wet form...

Friday, March 19, 2010

What Are Treatments For Alzheimer's Disease? | LIVESTRONG.COM

What Are Treatments For Alzheimer's Disease?. Alzheimers disease is the most common form of dementia--characterized by increasing memory loss, confusion, disorientation, poor judgment, and ultimately the inability to perform...

Eye Exercises For Macular Degeneration | LIVESTRONG.COM

Eye Exercises For Macular Degeneration. Macular degeneration causes progressive damage to the central macula--the part of the retina responsible for seeing color and acute vision. The peripheral parts of the retina enabl...

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Preventing Alzheimers

I was watching the psychiatrist Daniel Amen speak while I did my morning treadmill walk- he's a pretty good public speaker on public TV and I like learning the latest about the brain and study public speaking styles. I ordered the book below that he wrote with another doctor to check out. I don't think Dr. Amen's lectures or books will tell me a whole lot more than I already know about heart and brain healthy diets, exercise, not smoking etc. but I like having reminders ( I indulge in too much coffee and chocolate).