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Link between stress and Alzheimers - elte - Sep 17, 2015
I witnessed it happen to my mom. Within a couple of months of being severeley traumatized by the town administrators, she had lost about 90% of her ability to remember short term, and had to have extensive, basically around the clock care.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-09-evidence-link-stress-alzheimer-disease.html
RE: Link between stress and Alzheimers - Magical Realist - Sep 20, 2015
My mom never lost her memory but gradually lost her ability to understand things and to walk. I never knew dementia affected motor coordination, but hell it's the brain, so why not? She lived in a senior center the last 4 years of her life and finally died of kidney failure. I suspect she had vascular dementia, which relates to constricted blood flow to the various parts of the brain. I was glad she went quick and was spared the despairing life of long term Alzheimer's.