Reuters Health
Thursday, May 17, 2007
By Will Boggs, MD
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Simple cognitive tests can help predict the likelihood that a person with mild cognitive impairment will progress to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), researchers report in the journal Neurology.
Among 539 older individuals with mild cognitive impairment, the overall rate of progression to AD [...]
Archive for May, 2007
27 May
Simple Tests May Predict Progression to Alzheimer’s
25 May
Depression Hits U.S. Blacks Harder Than Whites
Depression Hits U.S. Blacks Harder Than Whites
March 8, 2007 08:40:38 PM PST
THURSDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) — Black Americans are more likely than whites to suffer severe, untreated and disabling depression, U.S. research shows.
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health analyzed data on 6,082 people who took part in a national survey conducted [...]
22 May
Marriage of Great Benefit to the Depressed
MONDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) — Depressed people get more of a psychological boost from marriage than people who aren’t depressed, even though depressed people tend to have poorer quality marriages, a U.S. study finds.
In the study, a team at Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus analyzed data on 3,066 single people, aged 55 and [...]
15 May
A Connection Between Bipolar Disorder & Alcoholism?
Mayo Clinic psychiatrist Daniel Hall-Flavin, M.D., answers:
Bipolar disorder and alcoholism frequently occur together. In some cases, bipolar disorder clearly develops before alcoholism. Bipolar disorder may increase the risk of alcoholism or other forms of substance abuse. It’s not clear why this occurs. But it may have a genetic component.
When bipolar disorder and alcoholism occur together, [...]
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