We don’t experience depression uniformly, and a new study finds that some symptoms may be more strongly linked with ...

Experts say these findings don’t mean depression causes dementia or that symptoms guarantee cognitive decline.

While a decline in cognitive function is an inevitable part of aging, and while affective disorders are also common in older adults, it has been found that depression can actually speed up and worsen ...

When you think about protecting your brain health as you age, you probably consider things like crossword puzzles, a ...

July 9, 2010 — Results of a new study provide strong evidence supporting a link between depressive symptoms and later risk for dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD). The study, using data from the ...

Study may help unravel who is at risk for dementia. A woman silhouetted in front of a large window in Berlin, Germany. — -- The reasons some people are more at risk for developing dementia came ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Depression and dementia have been linked before, which is part of the reason for the new research, led by a team from University ...

Depression and dementia may be more closely linked than previously recognized, according to new research from the University of Nottingham published in eClinicalMedicine. The study found that ...

Concurrent physical frailty and depression likely boost the risk of dementia in older people, with the interaction of these 2 factors alone contributing around 17% of the overall risk, suggest the ...

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 ...

Both a high-intensity functional exercise programme and a non-exercise group activity, conducted among older care facility residents with dementia, reduced high levels of depressive symptoms. However, ...

People with comorbid type 2 diabetes and depression are at a higher risk of developing dementia than people with just one of the conditions, according to a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry.