Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small cluster of six specific depression symptoms in middle-aged patients has been linked to an increased risk of developing ...

Midlife can be uniquely demanding — sandwiched between aging parents and growing kids, career and financial pressures, and the dawning realization that life is halfway lived. It’s no surprise that ...

In 2021, about 57 million people globally were living with dementia — an umbrella term for neurological conditions that impact a person’s cognitive skills and memory, such as Alzheimer’s disease and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large Danish study finds depression can appear up to eight years before Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) ...

We’ve long known of the link between depression and dementia. Now, a new study pinpoints six depressive symptoms in middle age that can predict dementia more than two decades later. Dementia diagnoses ...

Depression can have physical consequences. Research now suggests that when people get depressed in middle age and beyond, they're more likely to develop dementia in old age. But the link between ...

A combination of physical frailty and depression is associated with a substantially increased risk for subsequent dementia, exceeding the risk linked to either condition alone. In a cohort study of ...

Older adults with steadily increasing depressive symptoms may be at increased risk of developing dementia, Dutch investigators have discovered in findings that suggest that worsening depression may ...

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Depression in middle age has previously been linked to an increased risk of dementia. But this relationship appears to be driven by a small cluster of six specific symptoms, rather than by depression ...