The international team of scientists has found that the most social deprivation of life is experiencing poverty, famine, childhood difficulties, stress and poor health care, and even the risk of physical changes in mental disorders, and even brain structure. The study was published in Nature Communications (Natcom).
The researchers studied 2211 people from six Latin American countries, including patients with healthy adults and alzheimerial disease or facade-facilitation. Using a detailed questionnaires of childhood, education, food, health and social connections, specialists have compiled an integrated indicator called "Social Exposer". The higher the value, the harder the circumstances of their lives are.
The results were unequivocal. The high level of accumulative deprivation is related to the reduction of worse cognitive performance and reducing the ability to resist everyday actions and with more severe neuropsycholorism. In patients with Demencies, it was accompanied by a decrease in the volume of gray material in the main parts of the brain and disruptions of nervous ties.
"We were able to show the first time that the combination of unfavorable factors is not separate indicators, which has a powerful effect on the health of the brain," said the authors of the study.
Translation of: Euromedia24.com
