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In 2,596 Chinese women aged 45 to 59, a score combining blood sugar, triglycerides and frailty was linked to depressive symptoms and, more weakly, to cognitive impairment at a single visit.
Read articleIn 2 cohorts of adults over 60, having both insomnia and anxiety was linked to double the odds of cognitive impairment and a 54% higher rate of new dementia. Either condition alone was not.
Read articleIn 93 adults with well-controlled HIV followed about 6.5 years, CMV antibody levels and CMV-reactive T-cell responses were not linked to developing cognitive impairment.
Read articleA 2026 case report from Japan describes a woman in her 50s with treatment-resistant schizophrenia who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 31 years after her psychosis began. MS treatment s…
Read articleOlder South Koreans with cognitive impairment had higher depression scores when their care came mainly from public caregivers or a mixed group of helpers rather than their adult children. A …
Read articleA 2026 German-Austrian cohort analysis found that people with schizophrenia who were taking quetiapine scored modestly higher on demanding working-memory tests than sex- and age-matched pati…
Read articleA 2026 PROTECT study involving 174 older adults found that self-administered fingerprick p-tau217 correlated with episodic memory (r = 0.299, p < 0.001) and GFAP correlated with working memo…
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