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Falling Dementia Rates Linked to Generational Memory Gains

by GLOOM

Photoreal illustration representing generational gains in memory across older adults, with imagery of overlapping age trajectories and hippocampal motifs.

Dementia rates in the US, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, France, and several other high-income countries have been falling for decades, despite population aging. The standard explanation — improved cardiovascular care, more education, and less smoking in later-born cohorts — is real but incomplete. Research Highlights Dementia incidence has been falling about 13% per decade in Western …

Cognitive Reserve in First-Episode Psychosis: Education PRS Adds 4.2%

by GLOOM

Photoreal illustration of brain with strengthening neural networks suggesting reserve and protection against cognitive decline.

A 2026 analysis of 174 people with non-affective first-episode psychosis found that cognitive reserve was tied to 3 signals available near illness onset: age at onset, family history of psychosis, and polygenic liability for educational attainment. Adding the education polygenic score raised the model’s adjusted R² from 13.5% to 17.7%, a real but modest gain …