From the December 2014 issue of Massachusetts General Hospital's Mind, Mood, & Memory (MMM)
Researchers Identify Personality Traits That May Boost AD Risk
They found that those participants demonstrated a cluster of traits defined as neurotic faced twice the risk of developing AD.
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Individuals who in midlife tend to be neurotic and stressed are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in late life, according to a study published online Oct. 1, 2014 in Neurology. Researchers compared data on the personalities, stress levels, and memory performance over 40 years of 800 adult female participants in a long-running study, […]