It is hosted by people who previously had a mental disease and is produced by the psychologist Sara Makowski.

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Eventually, a doctor identified the problem as Alzheimer's disease, a slow deterioration of mental faculties.

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He says a longevity-gene drug, shielding patients simultaneously from mental deterioration, heart disease and stroke, could be ready in less than a decade.

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She told him (and the rabbits that sometimes surreptitiously accompanied the riders) that people were becoming more and more unbalanced: studies had proved it, which led the psychiatrist to conjecture that perhaps mental instability was not so much a disease as a stratum of normality, just below the surface of normality as it was commonly conceived.

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Experts believe that, as Floel's study suggests, increased inflammation and a drop in insulin sensitivity (which is known as insulin resistance) may help explain why obesity and type 2 diabetes have been linked to worse mental performance and a greater risk of Alzheimer's disease.

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Scientists have discovered the genetic secrets of a devastating disease that gradually robs healthy infant girls of their language, mental functioning and ability to interact with others.

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"In principle, if you can get the NGF into the brain successfully, this could offer a way of slowing down the decline of mental abilities in patients with Alzheimer's disease, " she said.

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"Let's just make it real clear: Dead bodies in and of themselves -- while they are mental health issues and tragic -- they are not a public health issue from an infectious disease standpoint at all, " Guarisco said.

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