[Pharmboy]

Do people with Alzheimer's daydream?

[Pharmboy]

You guys better stop all that daydreaming (and we at FR have an inkling of what you might be daydreaming about).

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, I'm doomed. ;)

[martin_fierro]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Clemenza]

Cheer up sleepy Jean, oh what can it mean...

[sure_fine]

huh?

[lysie]

Another way for pharmaceuticals along with doctors to come up with another drug early in life. Instead of ADT..it's now daydreaming disorder. Pop a pill.

[alloysteel]

It was once believed that polio was spread by flies, too.

And a severe bruise could cause leukemia.

Now, apparently, Vioxx causes heart failure.

Well, daydreaming MIGHT cause Alzheimer's syndrome.

But so could eating foods prepared in aluminum cooking vessels, or drinking soft drinks out of aluminum cans.

Roughly 50% of what you hear, or read, in your lifetime is sheer, unmitigated, unadulterated bull pucky. You won't know which 50% it is, though, until it is too late to do anything about the consequences of believing the wrong 50%.

[x]

Would you be wearing out those parts of the brain by daydreaming? Or would you be exercising and making them stronger?

Maybe if you live in a fantasy world the other parts of your brain don't get the necessary stimulation, but somehow the theory looks incomplete, to say the least.

[Logophile]

The parts of the brain that young, healthy people use when daydreaming are the same areas that fail in people who have Alzheimer's disease . . .

The parts of the body that young, healthy people use when breathing are the same areas that fail in people who have lung cancer . . .

[ordinaryguy]

The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggests that the way people use their brains could actually lead to Alzheimer's disease.

That is a huge leap, which seems unsupported by any data presented in the article.

Is Parkinson's caused by people moving their bodies to much? Is muscular dystrophy caused by too much exercise?

If excessive use of the brain's 'daydreaming regions' causes the formation of plaque in those regions, does overuse of the brain's other regions cause similar formation of plaque in those regions?

[razorback-bert]

So, I am going to grow hair in my brain, instead of my palm?

[mercy]

Well, I can daydream with the best of them even at my advanced age. Is that good or bad?

The day I have to pause and think what my wife's name is ... is the day I start planning my loooooong walk in the woods.

(does anyone think running through four or five dog's names (some deceased) when yelling at the pooch perpetrator in front of me is any kind of a bad sign?)

[woofie]

[1L]

I'm confused: does DDing PREVENT or CAUSE alzheimers?

[nicmarlo]

didn't you say you still daydream? : )

[TChad]

As I always say, senility is its own reward. At least I think I always say that.