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Rush University Medical Center conducted a research about the relationship between depression and dementia (Rush University, 2014). They wanted to draw a conclusion to find out if people with depression would be more susceptible to suffer from dementia also. They conducted this study with “1,764 participants from the Religious Order Study and the Rush Memory and Aging Project” (Rush University) with the average age of 77. None of the participants had any memory or thinking issues prior to the study. Over the 8 year period, 680 of the participants had died. But of the original 1,764 subjects, 922 of them had developed mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Our textbook, refers to cognitive processes as mental processes such as thinking, knowing, problem solving, remembering and forming mental representations (Wood, 2011). Their findings only suggested that there may be a risk factor, that those with depression may also develop dementia. But those participants that developed MCI, were more likely to have a higher levels of depression symptoms before they diagnosed with depression. And it was the same for dementia; those participants that developed MCI, were likely to have a higher levels of dementia symptoms before they were diagnosed with dementia (Rush University, 2014). It would be interesting to find out more on future finding.

References:

Rush University Medical Center. (2014, July 30). Depression as a risk factor for dementia: Link is independent of dementia-related brain changes. ScienceDaily. Retrieved August 2, 2014 from [|www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140730161525.htm]

Wood, Samuel E., Ellen R. Green. Wood, and Denise Roberts. Boyd. //Mastering the World of Psychology//. Fourth ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. Print.

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