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29 Apr
Would You Want to Know If You Had Alzheimer’s Disease Before Having Symptoms?
More than 7 million U.S. adults are now living with Alzheimer’s, according to a new report from the Alzheimer's Association.
26 Jul
Belly and Arm Fat Linked to Increased Risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
A new study suggests people with certain body shapes face greater odds of developing neurological diseases – but researchers say muscle strength may offer protection.
25 Jul
Screentime Tips for Sleep-deprived Tweens – New Study Unlocks Secrets to Better Rest
A new study reveals 4 screen habits that help improve sleep quality and quantity during adolescence.
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From slurping daily spoonfuls of fish oil to giving up alcohol, lifting weights and playing word games, older Americans think just about anything that might keep their brains sharp is worth a try.
After all, the risk of dementia — a loss of memory, problem-solving and thinking abilities that often equals an end to independence — rises sharply with age. By itself, the most comm...
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- April 12, 2025
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Love doesn't fade when one member of a family develops Alzheimer's disease, but times of intimacy like Valentine's Day can become tougher.
Experts at the Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) acknowledge that a loved one living with dementia can have trouble expressing their feelings or remembering things as they did in the past.
However, if partners and families follow the ...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- February 13, 2025
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Many elderly people and their caregivers don’t know a doctor has diagnosed them with dementia.
More than three-quarters of patients with dementia were not aware of their diagnosis, according to results recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
It’s not because the pe...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 21, 2025
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Seniors’ risk of dementia is more than double what was previously thought.
The risk of developing dementia after age 55 is more than 42% among Americans, researchers reported in a study published Jan. 13 in the journal Nature Medicine.
That’s more than twice the risk reported by older studies.
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- January 14, 2025
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Some brain cells are more susceptible to the ravages of aging than others, a new mouse study has found.
These results could shed new light on why people’s risk for dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and other brain disorders increase with age, r...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 3, 2025
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Add Alzheimer’s disease to the list of conditions that might benefit from the revolutionary diabetes drug Ozempic, a new study says.
People with type 2 diabetes taking semaglutide appeared to have a significantly lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s compared to patients taking seven other diabetes drugs, researchers reported...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- October 24, 2024
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Older people who avail themselves of the newest shingles vaccine could reap a hidden benefit: A significant drop in their odds of developing dementia.
One expert applauded the new findings.
"Dementia isn’t an inevitable part of aging; it’s caused by diseases like Alzheimer’s," said
Finding yourself packing on the pounds around your waist and arms? If so, you might be at heightened risk for neurological illnesses like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, new research suggests.
There was one other physical characteristic that lowered the odds, however: muscle strength. Stronger ...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- July 25, 2024
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After helping America through one of its worst tragedies, some responders to the events of 9/11 may now face another foe: Heightened risks for dementia.
A new study looks at the health of thousands of firemen, construction workers and others who worked at the World Trade Center (WTC) si...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- June 12, 2024
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Higher rates of blood vessel-damaging conditions like hypertension or diabetes may be driving up rates of cognitive decline and dementia among older American Indians, new research shows.
The study found that 54% of American Indians ages 72 to 95 had some form of impairment in their thinking and/or memory skills, while 10% had dementia.
The underlying causes: Vascular (blood vessel)...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- May 16, 2024
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Climate change is likely to make brain conditions like stroke, migraine, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis even worse, a new review warns.
The potential effects of a changing climate is likely to be substantial on a range of neurological conditions, researche...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- May 16, 2024
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Lucid episodes are an unexpected occurrence among people with late-stage Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
But these spontaneous events -- in which a person temporarily regains an ability to communicate that appeared to be permanently lost -- are not always a sign of impending death, a recent study argues.
Half the time, people live more than six months following their luci...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 15, 2024
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The discovery of a gene variant that rids the brain of toxic plaques linked to Alzheimer's might lead to new treatments for the disease, researchers report.
The variant arises naturally in people who don't seem to get Alzheimer's disease despite having another gene, called APOEe4, that strongly prom...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- April 11, 2024
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Nearly 7 million American seniors are living with Alzheimer's dementia, placing a huge strain on both personal caregivers and the U.S. health care system, according to a new Alzheimer's Association report.
The cost of caring for seniors with Alzheimer's is projected to reach $360 billion this year, up $15 billion from just a year ago, says the association's
Doctors looking to help their patients head off dementia may want to ask for their address.
An international team of researchers has linked accelerated brain aging and a higher risk of thinking declines to living in a poorer neighborhood.
"If you want to prevent dementia, and you're not asking someone about their neighborhood, you're missing information that's important to kno...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- March 15, 2024
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Combat veterans who suffered traumatic brain injuries due to explosive blasts may have markers in their spinal fluid similar to those of Alzheimer's disease, new research finds.
"Previous research has shown that moderate to severe traumatic brain injuries may increase a person's risk of Alzheimer's disease," said senior study author
Instead of approving the new Alzheimer's drug donanemab this month, as was expected, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will now require the experimental medication be scrutinized more closely by an expert panel, the drug's maker said Friday.
"The FDA has informed Lilly it wants to further understand topics related to evaluating the safety and efficacy of donanemab, including the safet...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- March 8, 2024
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In a new study, yoga appears to have bolstered the brain health of older women who had risk factors for Alzheimer's disease.
The study can't prove that the ancient practice will slow or prevent the onset of Alzheimer's, but it did seem to reverse some forms of neurological decline, researchers said.
"That is what yoga is good for -- to reduce stress, to improve brain health, subject...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- February 28, 2024
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Excess fat around your pancreas could bode ill for the health of your aging brain, new research shows.
But maybe only if you're male: The relationship wasn't observed among women, noted the team from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.
"In middle-aged males at high Alzheimer's disease risk -- but not females --higher pancreatic fat was associated with lower cognition and brain...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- February 27, 2024
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People exposed to high levels of traffic-related air pollution are more likely to have more amyloid plaques in their brain, a condition associated with Alzheimer's disease, a new study finds.
Seniors were nearly twice as likely to have more amyloid plaques if, in the year before their death, they lived in places with high concentrations of particle pollution caused by traffic, results sho...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 22, 2024
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Could drugs that give a boost to men's sexual performance help them stave off Alzheimer's disease?
That's the main finding from a study suggesting that erectile dysfunction meds like Cialis, Levitra and Viagra might lower the odds for the memory-robbing illness.
The study wasn't designed to prove cause-and-effect, cautioned British researchers at University College London.
"Mo...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- February 8, 2024
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New research suggests healthy lifestyles can help stave off dementia, perhaps by building a resilient 'cognitive reserve' in the aging brain.
The study was based on the brain autopsies on 586 people who lived to an average of almost 91. Researchers compared each person's lifestyle and end-of-life mental skills to their neurological signs of dementia, such as brain protein plaques or chang...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- February 5, 2024
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Dementia seems like a disorder that's always haunted the human race.
But this form of severe memory loss is actually a modern malady, if classical Greek and Roman physicians are to be believed.
A new analysis of ancient Greek and Roman medical texts suggests that dementia was extremely rare 2,000 to 2,500 years ago, in the time of Aristotle, Galen and Pliny the Elder.
The new ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 2, 2024
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Biogen, maker of the Alzheimer's medicine Aduhelm, announced Wednesday that it would "discontinue the development and commercialization" of the controversial drug.
Biogen will return the rights to Aduhelm to Neurimmune, the private firm that invented it, the company said in a
Five of eight British children who received human growth hormone from the pituitary glands of deceased donors went on to develop early-onset Alzheimer's disease many decades later, researchers report.
Researchers at University College London (UCL) suspect that the growth hormone received by these people in childhood may have contained amyloid-beta protein plaques, which build up in the br...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- January 29, 2024
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Strange visual disturbances occur early in about 10% of Alzheimer's cases, and when this happens it almost always signals the impending arrival of the disease, a new study finds.
The condition is called posterior cortical atrophy (PCA). It involves a sudden difficulty in performing vision-related tasks -- for example writing, judging whether an object is moving or stationary, or easily pi...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- January 24, 2024
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A daily multivitamin could help people keep their brains healthy as they age, a new trial finds.
Results suggest taking multivitamins could help prevent memory loss and slow cognitive aging among older adults, researchers report in the Jan. 18 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutritio...
There are so many New Year's resolutions from which to choose, but an important one could be to schedule a memory screening, experts say.
Memory screenings consist of a series of questions that gauge memory and brain function, according to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA).
These regular screenings are an important way to detect memory problems early, and should be part of...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 3, 2024
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From alcohol use to social isolation, poor hearing and heart disease, researchers have identified more than a dozen non-genetic factors that up the risk of dementia for people under 65.
Though about 370,000 new cases a year of young-onset dementia are diagnosed worldwide, it hasn't been well-researched.
Now, a large study from scientists in the U.K. and the Netherlands suggests that...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- December 29, 2023
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A common stomach bug may play a part in Alzheimer's disease risk.
New research found that older folks infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) had greater odds for developing Alzheimer's, the most common type of dementia.
"Given the global aging population, dementia numbers are expected to triple in the next 40 years," said study co-author
In preliminary findings, Swedish researchers say taking a cholesterol-lowering statin could also slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
The study can't prove cause-and-effect, but might pave the way to a trial that could confirm such a link, said study author Sara Garcia-Ptacek, an associate professor of neuroscience at the Ka...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- December 28, 2023
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For the growing number of American seniors who live alone, having a beloved dog or cat by their side could help them maintain a healthy brain.
New research on more than 7,900 people averaging 66 years of age found that those who lived alone were able to stave off losses in memory and thinking if they had a pet.
Pet ownership didn't seem to affect the cognition of older folks who liv...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- December 27, 2023
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Are you necessarily at higher risk of Alzheimer's disease just because you're 80, and not 75? New research shows it's more complex than that.
The findings suggest that it's the pace of buildup in the brain of Alzheimer's-linked amyloid protein plaques that matters most, not age.
"Our findings are consistent with studies showing that the amyloid accumulation in the brain takes decade...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- December 26, 2023
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A study involving twins suggests that if you have a sibling who develops dementia, that might not bode well for your life span.
That's true even if you don't go on to develop dementia yourself, according to a study from U.S. and Swedish researchers.
One investigator was surprised by the finding.
"We expected a different result. We expected that, in twins where one developed de...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- December 12, 2023
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Loss of the "happiness"brain hormone serotonin might play a role in the decline of brain function as a person ages, a new study reports.
People with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) had up to 25% lower levels of serotonin than healthy people in key regions of the brain associated with memory, problem-solving and emotion, researchers reported recently in the
When an HIV-infected child known as the 'Mississippi baby' was given powerful antiretroviral drugs within hours of birth in 2013 and then appeared to be rid of HIV, people wondered if it might be replicated in other newborns.
An international study involving 54 babies suggests it can.
Researchers now believe that if HIV-infected newborns receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) within t...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- December 11, 2023
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Minding your heart health when you're young could spare your brain from dementia decades later, new research confirms.
Chinese researchers looked at data on more than 450,000 older Britons. They found that people who'd already been in poor cardiovascular health before they reached the age of 45 had a 25% higher odds of developing dementia, compared to those with better heart heath.
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- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- November 30, 2023
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Alzheimer's patients are notoriously irritable, agitated and anxious -- and researchers now think they know why.
Brain inflammation appears to influence the mood problems of Alzheimer's patients, rather than traditional markers of the disease like amyloid beta or tau proteins, researchers report in the Nov. 27 issue of the journal
Medical imaging for thinking and memory issues happens much later in Black patients than in their white and Hispanic counterparts, new research shows.
A study to be presented Thursday at a meeting of radiologists also revealed that Black patients were less ofte...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- November 28, 2023
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Whole grains could be the key to Black people protecting their brains against aging and dementia, a new study reports.
Black folks who ate more foods with whole grains appeared to have a slower rate of memory decline than those who ate fewer whole grains, according to findings published Nov. 23 in the journal Neurology.
Among Black people, those who ate the most whole grain...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- November 27, 2023
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MONDAY, Nov. 27, 2023 (HeathDay News) -- More female surgeons are entering the field, which brings up a new question: Are your surgical outcomes likely to be better if your gender matches that of your surgeon?
The answer seems to be "probably not."
A study from University of California Los Angeles researchers found little evidence that patient-surgeon "gender concordance" matters to...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- November 27, 2023
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Middle-aged folks with lots of belly fat surrounding their internal organs appear to be at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease later in life, a new study suggests.
This hidden abdominal fat -- known as visceral fat -- is related to changes in the brain up to 15 years before the earliest symptoms of Alzheimer's manifest, according to findings to be presented at next week's annual meeting o...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- November 20, 2023
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Shrinkage of one of the brain's key memory centers appears to herald thinking declines, a new study finds.
The region in question is the hippocampus, a two-sided structure located roughly above each ear and embedded deep within the brain's temporal lobe. It's long been known to play a crucial role in the storage and transference of short- and long-term memory.
The new research was p...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- November 16, 2023
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The ancient art of tai chi, plus a modern twist, may help older adults reverse mild declines in brain power, a new clinical trial reveals.
Researchers found that tai chi classes helped older adults improve their subtle problems with cognition (memory and thinking skills). It also helped them with a fundamental multitasking skill: walking while your attention is elsewhere.
But while ...
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
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- October 31, 2023
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Millions of older Americans may be unaware they have memory and thinking impairments -- mostly because their doctors aren't diagnosing them, new research suggests.
After analyzing Medicare data covering 40 million older Americans, researchers found that only a small percentage of expected cases of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) were actually diagnosed. The upshot was that more t...
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
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- October 26, 2023
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Millions of people with diabetes take the drug metformin to control their blood sugar levels.
Meant to be taken for the long term, new research now suggests that stopping it early may up the risk of developing thinking and memory problems as patients age.
"We found that staying on metformin prevents or delays dementia onset, and this is very encouraging,"said researcher
High triglycerides, widely known as an enemy of the aging heart, may not be as threatening to older adults' brains, new research suggests.
The study, of over 80,000 older adults, found those with triglycerides in the "high-normal" or moderately high range were less likely to develop dementia, versus their peers with lower triglyceride levels.
Over six years, 3% of older folks with t...
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
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- October 26, 2023
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A variety of risks can make it more likely that someone develops Alzheimer's disease or other dementias.
Now you can add neighborhood environment to that list. A new study finds low income levels and a lack of green spaces are among the factors that can harm brain health.
"Social determinants of health have a major impact on cognition, as well as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular h...
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
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- October 26, 2023
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Mid-life isn't too late to make a dietary change to preserve brain health.
Women who started following the diet known as DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) to lower their blood pressure were about 17% less likely to report memory loss and other signs of mental decline decades later, a new study re...
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
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- October 24, 2023
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Scientists have long wondered whether depression leads to less sleep or whether a lack of sleep triggers depression.
A new study suggests it's the latter: Getting less than five hours of sleep a night may raise the risk of developing depressive symptoms.
"We have this chicken or egg scenario between suboptimal sleep duration and depression, they frequently co-occur, but which comes ...
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
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- October 23, 2023
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