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Newly launched brain health center focuses on Alzheimer’s prevention
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Boca Raton, Florida – Early intervention and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia are the focus of a newly launched brain health center at Florida Atlantic University is focusing on.
According to Neurologist Dr. Richard Isaacson, Director of the center at FAU’s Schmidt College of Medicine, Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases start in the brain decades before symptoms appear.
Dr. Isaacson said that leaves ample time to help people make brain-healthy lifestyle choices to reduce their risk.
“The cornerstones of good health like exercise, a healthy diet, sleep modification, and maintaining a balanced life with low stress are super important. But the medical and biological factors controlling blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, and some of those other precise factors can only be really identified in a clinic setting, that’s what we intervene on,” Isaacson said.
According to Dr. Isaacson, the program is individually tailored and is available to people at any age from their twenties through their sixties and beyond.
Research has shown that program participants had improved cognitive function after 18 months of following a targeted plan, Isaacson said.
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