Alzheimer in long-wed couples

CactusCritter

6th February 2007 - 06:53 AM

http://www.physorg.com/news89917592.html

Folks who have been wed a long time seldom, if my experience is any indication, experience loneliness. Yet I have heard a distressing number of cases where one partner in a long-time marriage devlops Alzheimers.

I wonder if the reported study took cognizance of that factor.

Mong H Tan, PhD

6th February 2007 - 06:48 PM

Re: Alzheimer’s in long-term marriage

I think Alzheimer’s predisposition is related to the gene-environment interactions as well as the aging of our Brain.

Loneliness can be self-induced as depression or isolation, an emotional state that would instill even in marriage, whenever the intimacy or communication between the couple broke down, without mending. In mental isolation cases like this, one aging partner will eventually develop Alzheimer’s sooner than the other, despite a long-term marriage.

Best wishes, Mong 2/6/7usct12:47p; author Gods, Genes, Conscience and Gods, Genes, Conscience: Global Dialogues Now; a cyberspace hermit-philosopher of Modern Mind, whose works are based on the current advances in interdisciplinary science and integrative psychology of Science and Religion worldwide; ethically, morally; metacognitively, and objectively.

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