How Depression Weakens the Brain
In findings that highlight the importance of mood and stress to maintaining a healthy brain, researchers and psychiatrists say that a bout of depression may raise the risks of developing dementia later in life. People who have experienced a major depression even once in the previous 10 years in late middle age are twice as likely as those who haven’t to develop problems in concentration, memory or problem-solving ability after the age of 65, according to several large, epidemiological studies.
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