Determining the Effects of Chinese Medicine on Amnesia and/or Dementias through Data Mining

从数据挖掘角度看中医药治疗健忘与痴呆

Recently there has been so much publicity about Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias that patients, and sometimes even their doctors, overlook the fact that a mild memory deficit may be benign

近来，人们大肆渲染阿耳茨海默氏病和其他痴呆病，以致于病人有时甚至他们的医生都忽略了某种记忆力轻度缺陷可能是良性的这个事实。

||1:A study in India examined the effect of knowing more than one language in delaying the first signs of several disorders, these included Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia, Lewy bodies dementia and mixed dementias .||2:Researchers studied nearly 650 people whose average age was 66. 240 of those studied suffered from Alzheimer’s, the most common form of mental decline.

||1:印度的一项研究检验了懂多种语言在推迟患上几种疾病上的作用，这些疾病包括阿尔茨海默氏病、额颞叶痴呆，血管性痴呆，路易体痴呆和混合性痴呆。||2:研究人员研究了平均年龄为66岁的近650人，其中240人患有阿尔茨海默氏病，这是一种最常见的智力下降。

Mr Bok believes this effort improves what scientists called executive functioning or attention to tasks, this mental ability often weakens in people with dementias .

伯克先生认为，这项工作提高了科学家们所谓的大脑执行功能，这种心智能力在痴呆者身上通常开始减弱。

391 of the subjects spoke two or more languages. Investigators found the dementias began about four-and-a-half years later in those who were bilingual compared to those who spoke only one language. The level of education had no effect on the age at the first sign of dementia.

其中391位研究对象讲多种语言。研究者发现，双语者在患上痴呆症的时间上比只讲一种语言的人晚4年半。教育程度对患上痴呆症的年龄没有影响。

Bilingualism May Delay the First signs of Dementias

双语可以推迟患痴呆症

New research suggests that speaking more than one language may delay different kinds of dementia, that is the lost of mental ability. In fact, researchers say, speaking two languages appears to be more important than the level of education in defending against dementias .

新的研究表明，讲一种以上的语言可以推迟患上各种痴呆症，痴呆是指心智能力的缺失。实际上研究人员说，讲两种语言在对抗痴呆上似乎比教育程度更加重要。

And if enhanced, the substance could help ward off dementias and other memory problems.

而且如果效果加强了，这个物质可以帮助治疗痴呆和其它记忆性问题。

Most dementias are missed for years as the symptoms can be elusive until considerable brain tissue is lost.

由于痴呆症状让人难以捉摸致使许多病患的治疗耽误了多年直至大部分脑组织失常

And this shrinkage speeds up as we grow older, foreshadowing memory problems and dementias like Alzheimer’s disease.

这种收缩随着我们年龄的增长会加速，这就是出现记忆力问题和像阿耳茨海默氏病这样的老年痴呆症的征兆。