Dr. Sam Gandy: “Cynics at Higher Risk for Dementia? Yea, Right”
According to a new Finnish study, cynical, distrustful people may be more prone to dementia. Sam Gandy, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, and Associate Director of the Mount Sinai Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said the new study "addresses the issue of whether dementia underlies the development of an outlook characterized by negative, cynical, sometimes paranoid mistrust that can develop in the elderly." Doctors, however, should be wary in their interpretation of these attitudes, he said. They "should not jump immediately to the diagnosis of dementia," he said. Learn more
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