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...What all these risk gene studies show us is that genes do an important job in loading the gun," says Joshua Buckholtz, a neuroscience Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University's Brain Institute and Department of Psychology, who has written extensively about MAO-A gene. "But it's the environment that pulls the trigger...
...much easier and cost-effective to modulate an individual's environment than it is to alter their genetic code," says Buckholtz. And until the gene is better understood, that investment will pay off for those with the MAO-A defect and those without...
This clinical view of MCI deals with distinct changes in forgetfulness over a period of a year or two--changes that can be verified with psychological testing. "People start at different points," says Neil Buckholtz, chief of the dementias branch at the National Institute on Aging. "Everybody forgets where they put their keys. But if you forget what keys are for, that could be a concern...
Again, however, what works for Alzheimer's patients may not work for other people. Buckholtz explains that it takes very high doses of vitamin E before the chemistry of the brain changes even a little, and for healthy middle-agers, such a small neurochemical difference may make no difference in memory...
...over a 15-year period. Lecithin, vitamin B12 and folic acid also generate buzz in the memory biz, but again there is little or no in-the-lab science to back up the claimed benefits. "There just aren't any good data that we know of," says Buckholtz...