....linked to higher risk of dementia....


Bad dreams in middle age ‘linked to higher risk of dementia’

....People who experience frequent bad dreams in middle age could be more likely to be diagnosed with dementia later in life, research suggests.

A study found that bad dreams could become more common several years or even decades before thinking and memory problems set in.

A previous study of people with Parkinson’s disease also noted a link between frequent distressing dreams and faster rates of cognitive decline.

Dr Abidemi Otaiku, from the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Human Brain Health, who carried out the new research, said: “We’ve demonstrated for the first time that distressing dreams, or nightmares, can be linked to dementia risk and cognitive decline among healthy adults in the general population.

“This is important because there are very few risk indicators for dementia that can be identified as early as middle age.

“While more work needs to be done to confirm these links, we believe bad dreams could be a useful way to identify individuals at high risk of developing dementia, and put in place strategies to slow down the onset of disease.”

For the study, published in The Lancet journal eClinicalMedicine, Dr Otaiku examined data from three community-based groups of people in the US.

These included more than 600 adult men and women aged between 35 and 64 and 2,600 adults aged 79 and older.

All the people were dementia-free at the start of the study and were followed up for an average of nine years for the younger group and five years for the older group.

They were asked questions about the quality of their sleep, including how often they experienced bad dreams. This data was then analysed using computer software.

The findings showed that middle-aged people (35 to 64) who experienced bad dreams on a weekly basis were four times more likely to suffer cognitive decline over the following decade, while older people were twice as likely to be diagnosed with dementia.

These findings appeared to be much stronger for men than for women.

Dr Otaiku said more research was needed to examine the findings, including investigating whether nightmares among young people could be associated with future dementia risk.

How often people remember dreams and how vivid they are could also provide clues to dementia risk.


possible......indication............?!

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If I'm constantly looking for my pants, is that a bad dream or comic relief from a stressful day?

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Drew
If I'm constantly looking for my pants, is that a bad dream or comic relief from a stressful day?

Did you ship your pants ... and forget ?

Yes, this definitely sounds like more research is needed.

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All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

I have nothing but bad dreams, usually struggling to survive in some bizarro world or an apocalyptic world.

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I'm doomed....wait, what was I saying...

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1. They were only diagnosing Parkinson's Disease.
2. Had to be at least one dream per week.
3. Dream had to wake you up.

I mean I have bad dreams sometimes, but it's very rare that they wake me up.

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Grateful11
I have nothing but bad dreams, usually struggling to survive in some bizarro world or an apocalyptic world.

In general, me too. More often, I just have dreams of trying to [do something], but not being able to do it. Trying to get somewhere, being expected to make a presentation that I have trouble preparing for, that sort of thing. Less often do I have people shooting at me/trying to kill me.

I tend to think (as a result) that dreams are evolutionarily useful by putting us in difficult situations that we have to find a way out of. Sort of a dry run without terrible consequences. Thus, “bad” or problem-solving dreams; how would you get away from that tiger?

I should say they’re not all bad. And that makes the good ones great.