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Lower Blood Pressure and Dementia

In: Disorders of Age and Cognition, Psychosis and Cognitive Function

A new study suggests that lowering blood pressure may also lessen the risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a degree of brain decline that is considered the gateway to dementia. The results of the study, which was funded by various agencies within the National Institutes of Health, were presented atContinue Reading

Parkinson’s Disease

In: Psychosis and Cognitive Function

Parkinsons Disease is a disorder that gradually destroys cells in regions of the brain involved with moving the body. Doctors don’t know exactly what causes the most common form of the disease, which occurs chiefly in people age fifty to seventy. Some forms of the disease however, are caused byContinue Reading