{"id":3586,"date":"2014-06-13T02:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2019-06-29T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T14:08:07","slug":"taiji-and-alzheimer-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/2014\/06\/taiji-and-alzheimer-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiji and Alzheimer Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"
A recent research study shows that practicing Taiji can increase the brain size and results in improvements in several cognitive tests that may suggest reducing the probability of getting Alzheimer Disease or delaying its onset.<\/p>\n
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Research Methodology:\u00a0<\/strong> A very meaningful and exciting paper “Tai Chi Increases Brain Size and Benefits Cognition in Randomized Controlled Trial of Chinese Elderly” was published in the June 19, 2012 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. <\/em>[1-2]\u00a0\u00a0 This research involved three institutions:\u00a0 University of South Florida, Fudan University in Shanghai, and the University of California at Davis.\u00a0 This study was an 8-month randomized controlled trial of 120 non-demented, senior (60-79) Chinese citizens from Shanghai,.\u00a0 The 120 people were divided into four groups:<\/p>\n Two MRIs were obtained for each participant, one before the study and one after the 40-week study.\u00a0 A neuropsychological battery of tests was administered at the start of the study, at 20 weeks, and at 40 weeks.<\/p>\n Research Results:<\/strong><\/p>\n The above results show that the Taiji Group had the best results in all three tests.\u00a0 The brain size grew the most; the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale improved the most, and the Trail-making tests showed a faster response time.\u00a0 Actually, these results are not surprising because of the commonly accepted axiom “if you don’t use it, you will lose it.”<\/p>\n In addition to the above mentioned tests, the Taiji Group also registered improvements in other evaluations, including the Auditory Verbal Learning Test, the Verbal Fluency Test, the Initiation Score, Attention Score and Memory Score.<\/p>\n Although not commonly known and may not be always taught, the mind is very much involved in practicing Taiji.\u00a0 It is because of this active involvement of the mind that practicing Taiji may be able to reduce the probability of getting Alzheimer’s Disease or delay the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease.<\/p>\n ———————————–<\/p>\n [1] James A. Mortimer, Ding Ding, Amy R. Borenstein, Charles DeCarli, Qihao Guo, Yougui Wu, Qianhua Zhao, Shugang Chu. Changes in Brain Volume and Cognition in a Randomized Trial of Exercise and Social Interaction in a Community-Based Sample of Non-Demented Chinese Elders, Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease<\/em>\u00a0 2012; 30 (4), published by IOS Press:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.j-alz.com\/press\/2012\/20120619.html<\/a>. [2] Violet Li, “Tai Chi increases brain size and potentially delays the onset of the Alzheimer,” August 16, 2012: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.violetlitaichi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tai-Chi-increases-brain-size-and-potentially-delays-the-onset-of-the-Alzheimer-Examiner.com_.pdf<\/a> .<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A recent research study shows that practicing Taiji can increase the brain size and results in improvements in several cognitive tests that may suggest reducing the probability of getting Alzheimer Disease or delaying its onset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5889,"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions\/5889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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