Stay in school longer to avoid dementia
Researchers have found that individuals with ‘more’ education are better equipped to stave off dementia.
These findings published in the Advanced Access online edition of the journal Brain confirm a decade of past studies that have also concluded more schooling equals a decreased risk of suffering from dementia, defined as the “loss of intellectual functions” including memory, orientation, calculation, language, attention and thinking.
Carol Brayne, MSc, MD, MRCP, MFPHM, a professor of epidemiology and principal investigator at the University of Cambridge, led the study and discovered higher education and loss of intellectual functions is not reserved solely for the upwardly mobile or those with healthier lifestyles.
“People with different levels of education have similar brain pathology but … those with more education are better able to compensate for the effects of dementia,” noted the researchers.
According to a July 24 University of Cambridge announcement, “each additional year of education” decreases your risk of developing dementia by 11 percent.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates over 29 million suffer from dementia globally and projects “Africa, Asia and Latin America together could have more than 80 million people with dementia by the year 2025.”
Co-author of the study, Hannah Keage, PhD, a More >
LAHORE: (Monday, July 19, 2010): Punjab University Institute of Communication studies (ICS)’ Board of Studies has decided to introduce two new subjects of “Business Journalism” and “Sports Journalism” to meet the growing needs of reporters in these two vital disciplines at the Institute.
The Board of Studies meeting, held here today under the chairmanship of Director ICS Dr Ahsan Akhtar Naz, was also attended by the Dean Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences Prof Dr Mughees-ud-Din Sheikh, Anwar Waqar Azeem, Dr Abdul Siraj and Dr Noshina Saleem, after through discussion decided the introduction of said subjects from session 2010-2012. The Board of Studies also recommended the University Syndicate to change the existing nomenclature of Mass Communication degree from MA in Communication Studies to MSc in Communication Studies. Besides, with a view to familiarizing journalism students with our time-tested and trust-worthy friend China ‘ language, the Board of Studies also decided to introduce Chinese language as an elective subject at the ICS.
