The role of providing care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease can expose friends and family caregivers to significant stress over an extended period of time, resulting in a host of negative outcomes like increased depression and anxiety, and diminished quality of life. However, previous studies have found that...
Background: Cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) is among the most frequently reported adverse events during and following cancer treatment. Between 17% to 75% of chemotherapy-treated cancer patients evidence long-term cognitive deficits as many as 20 years after treatment. The variability in prevalence and the mechanisms of persistent CRCI are not well...
The presence of subjective cognitive decline (SCD) among cognitively normal-for-age older adults is increasingly hypothesized to represent a preclinical stage in the development of Alzheimer’s dementia (Jessen et al., 2014). This project aimed to characterize this construct with regard to its cognitive, motor, emotional, and functional features. The first study...