Alzheimer's affects memory and personality those qualities that make a person an individual.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

Social workers and mental health experts sometimes test for memory and judgment.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

These signs include problems with memory and even simple mathematics.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

Alzheimers weakens or destroys memory and reasoning.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

It attacks the brain's nerve cells, robs memory and impairs thinking and language skills.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

"I go to the gym," (No Transcripts) Michael Reagan says that while following a healthy diet, reading and learning new skills can help sharpen one's memory and possibly prevent or slow the advance of the illness, the most effective way to fight Alzheimer's is to volunteer and support funding for current research.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

"Right now at a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory and this is extremely alarming to the World Food Program because we are the ones on the front lines trying to help the most hungry out of the one billion people who are going to bed every night without enough food."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

This medicine seems to work by governing the activity of a chemical involved in information processing, storage and memory.

VOA: special.2011.02.08

Laura Middleton says the research showed that even low-intensity activity reduced the risk of thinking problems and memory loss.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

Another animal with a good memory -- the elephant -- often raids field crops, especially maize and cassava.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

But learning so much of it in such a short time, that's a big scramble -- and they have to know it from memory."

VOA: special.2011.07.11

She suffered broken bones and severe head injuries which continue to affect her hearing,sight,and memory.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

"Any and all Valentine's when I actually had a girlfriend." And the worst memory?

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Dementia is a loss of intellectual ability that affects memory, learning,attention,thinking and language skills.

VOA: special.2009.12.28