Anxiety: Dementia

Could anxiety lead to dementia?

Published Tuesday 1 May 2018

By Ana Sandoiu

Fact checked by Tim Newman

A recent study suggests that living with moderate to severe anxiety in midlife may lead to dementia in later years.

Feeling anxious in your middle age may speed up age-related cognitive decline.

The new research was carried out by a team of scientists led by Amy Gimson, a researcher at the University of Southampton's Faculty of Medicine in the United Kingdom.

Gimson and her colleagues observed that more and more studies were highlighting a link between mental health problems and late-onset dementia — the most prevalent form of dementia, which affects people around the age of 65./.../