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Worry Accelerates Alzheimer's Disease

  • February 04, 2005

If you read this blog regularly, you know one of my favorite topics to write about is the undeniable link between physical health and your emotions. Needless ongoing stress, in the form of worry, can make people, particularly Caucasians, an easy target of Alzheimer's disease later on, according to a new study. The likely culprit: Chronic elevations of stress hormones that may damage regions of the brain regulating behavior under stress and memory. Researchers asked some 1,100 people...