New ECU research has found that more than 40 per cent of older Australians with chronic disease would be unlikely to seek help for mental health conditions even if they needed it. One in seven Australians is aged over 65. But while we’re living longer, we’re not necessarily living better or happier. Edith Cowan University...
Tag: <span>Mental Health</span>
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Cognitive screen paired with odor identification predicts lack of transition to dementia
Alzheimer’s may be ruled out with brief smell and cognitive tests COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER Summary A new study has found that performing well on two brief tests measuring cognitive ability and ability to identify odors indicates very low risk for Alzheimer’s. We know that these tests can help predict the risk of developing dementia, but didn’t...
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Poor evidence cannabis improves mental health: study
People with psychiatric disorders may want to pass on the joint—at least until further research is done, a new Australian study suggests. The paper, published Monday in The Lancet Psychiatry, looked at 83 previous studies conducted over almost four decades on medical cannabinoids, including products from the cannabis plant, such as leaves, buds and oils....
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Common symptoms of depression: What to know
By Jennifer Berry Reviewed by Timothy J. Legg, PhD, CRNP Everyone experiences feelings of sadness occasionally, but depression is different. It persists over time and can cause a variety of other symptoms. Depression is a medical condition that affects more than 300 million people globally, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). People sometimes call it clinical depression or major depressive disorder....
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The first test to detect dysphagia in patients with cognitive problems
by University of Granada Researchers from the Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre (CIMCYC) of the University of Granada (UGR) have designed a test to detect dysphagia, a disorder that prevents people from swallowing when eating. It affects 8 percent of the world’s population. Dysphagia is prevalent among older people in particular (30 percent to...
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A new discovery: How our memories stabilize while we sleep
CNRS Scientists at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CNRS/Collège de France/INSERM)[1] have shown that delta waves emitted while we sleep are not generalized periods of silence during which the cortex rests, as has been described for decades in the scientific literature. Instead, they isolate assemblies of neurons that play an essential role in long-term memory formation. These...
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In shocking reversal, Biogen to submit experimental Alzheimer’s drug for approval
By MATTHEW HERPER @matthewherper OCTOBER 22, 2019 In a shocking reversal, Biogen (BIIB) on Tuesday said that it would resurrect an Alzheimer’s drug that the company previously said had failed and will ask the Food and Drug Administration to approve it. The company said a “new analysis of larger dataset” showed that the drug, aducanumab,...
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The Military Discovered A Way To Boost Soldiers’ Memories, And We Tried It
An experiment funded by the U.S. military meant to sharpen soldiers’ minds for the battlefield has found a way to improve memory: by zapping subjects’ brains with tiny bursts of electricity during sleep. In a multi-year study at the University of New Mexico, volunteers received a fraction of 9-volt battery’s worth of electrical stimulation to...
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An oral anticoagulant delays the appearance of Alzheimer’s disease in mice
by Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.) Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have identified a possible treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. Working together with a scientific team at the Rockefeller University in New York, the investigators have shown that treatment with the oral anticoagulant dabigatran delays the appearance of Alzheimer’s disease in mice. The results published today in the Journal of the American College...
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Mediterranean style diet found to relieve symptoms of depression
By Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD A new study has added to the existing evidence that a healthy and balanced diet could help reduce the symptoms of depression. The study titled, “A brief diet intervention can reduce symptoms of depression in young adults – A randomized controlled trial”, was published this week in the latest issue of the...