Tooth loss, dementia and neuropathology in the Nun Study.
The Nun Study's latest published findings offer similarly provocative ideas about how positive emotional state in early life may contribute to living longer.
Riley, K. P., Snowdon, D. A., Desrosiers, M. F. & Markesbery, W. R. Early life linguistic ability, late life cognitive function, and neuropathology: findings from the Nun Study.
Abi Morgan, hot property after the success of BBC drama The Hour, based 27 on American epidemiologist David Snowdon's "nun study" and some nuns she met on a train.
The experiment, called the Nun Study, is considered by experts on aging to be one of the most innovative efforts to answer questions about who gets Alzheimer's disease and why.
The case of Iris Murdoch defied the predictions of the "nun study," which showed that mental activity and early complex use of language seemed to protect against senile dementia, and her decline was especially shocking to me).
In fact the Nun Study represents the largest brain donor population in the world.
Consider the famous Nun Study: Although it had a much smaller sample than the Lancet study, it started when the nuns, all living in similar conditions with similar diets, were 22 and followed them until death.
The wisdom of Alzheimer's prevention, derived from the famous Nun Study at the University of Minnesota, and the Religious Orders Study, at Rush University in Chicago, has been piling up for a decade or two, but is rarely put into practice.
The Nun Study quickly grew to include 678 sisters, scattered across the U.S. All were American Roman Catholic sisters and members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, an international religious congregation that began more than 150 years ago in Bavaria, Germany.
Accordingly, the Nun study has shown that the risk of dementia increases by more than 20 times in AD if the patients exhibit cerebral infarction [9].
