Adults with mild cognitive impairment can learn, benefit from mindfulness meditation

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There’s currently no known way to prevent older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from developing Alzheimer’s disease.

But there may be a safe and feasible non-pharmacological treatment that may help patients living with MCI, according to a small pilot study in the current issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease led by a neurologist and researcher with Wake Forest Baptist Health.

“Until treatment options that can prevent the progression to Alzheimer’s are found, may help patients living with MCI,” said Rebecca Erwin Wells, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine, a practicing neurologist at Wake…

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