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Neuro Psychiatric researchers have done a study on the relationship between Dementia and Depression. In the past studies have shown that patients with depression are more likely to develop dementia but there has been no data as to whether this is correlation or causation. The author of the study, Robert S. Wilson, PhD, neuropsychiatrist at the Rush #|Alzheimer's Disease Center and lead study investigator, was quoted as saying "Is the depression a consequence of the dementia? Do both problems develop from the same underlying problems in the brain? Or does the relationship of depression with dementia have nothing to do with dementia-related pathology?" (Rush University Medical Center) The current study indicates that the association of #|depression with dementia is independent of dementia-related brain changes. These findings suggest depression truly is a risk factor for dementia, and if we can target and prevent or treat depression and causes of stress we may have the potential to help people maintain their thinking and memory abilities into old age. Through the mitigation of depression in our lives we might be able to eliminate its catalytic effect resulting in dementia which is defined in our text book as a state of mental deterioration resulting in the loss of memory, intellect, and altered personality. (Wood, 190)

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#|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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