BACKGROUND Cognitive performance has been associated with mental and physical health, but it is unknown whether the strength of these associations changes with ageing and with age-related social transitions, such as retirement. We examined whether cognitive performance predicted mental and physical health from midlife to early old age. METHOD Participants were 5414 men and 2278 women from the...

It is widely believed that keeping mentally active will prevent age-related mental decline. The primary prediction of this mental-exercise hypothesis is that the rate of age-related decline in measures of cognitive functioning will be less pronounced for people who are more mentally active, or, equivalently, that the cognitive differences among people who vary in level of mental activity will b...

The Mini-Mental State Examination is one of the most widely used screening tests for the adult population in daily neurologic practice. The aim of this study was to describe and to analyze the results of the Mini-Mental State Examination administered to Spanish children and to assess the relationship between Mini-Mental State Examination scores and the child's mental age/intelligence quotient. ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine whether age-related differences in rates of use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) specifically for mental health problems parallel well-known age-related differences in use of conventional mental health services and medications. METHODS A sample of middle-aged (45-64 years; n = 10,762), younger-old (65-74; n = 4,113) and older-old ...

Prospective relations between personality traits and mental disorders were assessed in a longitudinal study of a representative birth cohort of young men and women from Dunedin, New Zealand. Personality traits were assessed via self-report questionnaire at age 18, and mental disorders were assessed via diagnostic interview at both ages 18 and 21. High "negative emotionality" (a propensity to ex...

background: caring for a patient with heart failure can be a challenging and stressful situation. however, researchers have paid less attention to caregiving outcomes in heart failure caregivers. this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between perceived life changes and mental health of family caregivers of heart failure patients. methods: through a correlational design, a conv...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate mental health in temporomandibular disorders (tmd) patients considering: gender, age, and grade of chronic pain scales (gcps). materials and methods: the data were collected using general health questionnaire (ghq-28) for evaluating mental health and research diagnostic criteria for tmd for evaluating gcps, age, and gender from 75 tmd patient ...