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Cambridge study finds apathy, not depression, is an early sign of dementia :
A new study, led by neuroscientists from the University of Cambridge, has identified apathy as an important early sign of dementia. The research finds apathy is distinct from depression, and offers a more accurate longitudinal association with the onset of dementia.
[...] To study this particular distinction between apathy and depression, and their relationship with dementia, the researchers looked at two independent cohorts with cerebral small vessel disease (SVD), totaling more than 450 subjects. SVD is a common age-related condition and it's the leading cause of vascular dementia, so following SVD patients for several years before dementia develops offers a good insight into the earliest pre-clinical signs of cognitive decline.
Affirming the hypothesis that apathy is an early sign of cognitive decline, the researchers reference recent MRI studies finding SVD damages specific white matter networks relating to motivation and healthy cognitive functions. This suggests as SVD progresses, an early stage of pre-dementia neurodegeneration can manifest in apathetic behavior.
"This implies that apathy is not a risk factor for dementia per se, but rather an early symptom of white matter network damage," the researchers write in the study. "Indeed, recent theoretical work proposed that certain symptoms of apathy are synonymous with defined cognitive deficits. If this is the case, then apathy may manifest early as a reduction in attention towards reward stimuli, then later, as an inability to learn or remember rewarding behaviours."
Journal Reference:
Jonathan Tay, Robin G Morris, Anil M Tuladhar, et al. Apathy, but not depression, predicts all-cause dementia in cerebral small vessel disease [open], Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-323092)
If you really don't care about this study, you might be in trouble...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by khallow on Wednesday July 15 2020, @12:55PM (4 children)
I propose "wrong" [etymonline.com]. It has proto-Germanic roots.
Shouldn't you show that's happening first?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by RS3 on Wednesday July 15 2020, @01:40PM (1 child)
Comeon Khallow, wake up- simple observation and common knowledge. Water is wet, fire is hot, news a 11. Nobody knows what readers allready know, but there's a point where it's too wasteful and inefficient to rewrite the entire book of everything just to make a comment on a blog (where most people already grasp the background of what's going on in the world, society, govt., etc.)
Starts with "reasonable alternate viewpoint", progresses to "major PITA" maybe? If you want clinical, https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/oppositional-defiant-disorder [hopkinsmedicine.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @04:02PM
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/do-as-you-re-told-the-ballad-of-no-comic-book [indiegogo.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Wednesday July 15 2020, @05:44PM (1 child)
You are full newspeak. Never go full newspeak. Wait till they force you.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RS3 on Thursday July 16 2020, @02:33PM
I gotta wonder how people aren't more aware of it.
I won't retell the whole story, but years ago I had a strong personal connection to a lawyer who was on the inside of a very major world-wide news event (Exxon Valdez disaster). He told me information and details that were so radically different from what the news media were saying that I learned, early on, to never put much faith in what I read/hear in the news. People take too much stock in news media. I don't care which side you're on, or which media you refer to- it's all tainted. If for no other reason than: time They're rushed to meed deadlines, to get to the public first, to appeal to one-sided audience, attract advertising dollars, make their bosses happy, etc. I try to read a variety of news, but who has that kind of time anyway.