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Mental ability
PEOPLE WHO get more upset by disturbing events are more likely to suffer the declines in memory and mental ability found in Alzheimer's disease, according to a recent study.
Dr. Robert S. Wilson of the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago, the study's lead author, said that chronic stress undermined the functioning of the part of the brain governing memory. Eight hundred members, with an average age of 75, completed surveys in an effort to gauge what researchers called "distress proneness", how likely reactions to stress would result neuroticism. People who had scored the highest on the neuroticism test were twice as likely to have developed the condition as those who scored the lowest.
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