Cognitive Training and Alzheimer's Disease/Dementia

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This paper looks at two recent and interconnected research articles which study cognitive training in Alzheimer and dementia patients. The paper analyzes each article as to what it is trying to say and why it is important, the research methods used and the proof of the article's claim, and critiques of the article and room for expansion and improvement. Finally, it draws conclusions as to how the articles relate to one another and if they support or contradict each other.

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"Cognitive Training and Alzheimer's Disease/Dementia With the baby boomer generation getting older, and the effects of dementia and Alzheimer's disease having already shown themselves in the generation before, much work has begun to try and head off this ugly and merciless disease. Such groups as the Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center (ADEAR) have noted that in studies linking cognitive training and the prevention of Alzheimer's, "Training sessions for 2 hours a week for 5 weeks improved the memory, concentration and problem solving skills of healthy independent adults 65 years and older who participated in the nation's largest study of cognitive training" (ADEAR, 2002). Just what is this "cognitive training?" A recent journal piece states that "Cognitive training and cognitive rehabilitation are specific approaches designed to address everyday memory difficulties" (Clare, et al, 2005). Another article states that "Mental decline may, in some cases, be reversible."

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