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Brief screening tools for early dementia risk are essential in primary care. A 2026 study by You et al. evaluated the AD8 informant questionnaire in older Chinese-speaking adults in Australi…
Read articleIceland is a registry-rich country with a small enough population that genuinely nationwide health data is feasible — not the survey-based approximations that anchor most psychiatric epidemi…
Read articleThe risperidone-stroke link in dementia is one of the longest-running safety signals in geriatric psychiatry, anchoring the FDA’s 2005 black-box warning on atypical antipsychotic mortality. …
Read articleLoneliness raises measured risk of Alzheimer’s, suicidal ideation, and completed suicide. The associations are documented; the precise magnitudes are not.
Read articleAlcohol’s effects on the brain, especially among the elderly, have long been a subject of scientific inquiry. A recent study from Gothenburg, Sweden, provides new insights into how varying l…
Read articleDepression is a multifaceted mental health condition that deeply affects individuals worldwide, particularly the older population. A study in Chinese individuals ages 60 and above sheds ligh…
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