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...principal figure was the head of the Bank of England, a fellow called Montagu Norman. He was a complete eccentric. He carried the mystique that Alan Greenspan did a few years ago. His major problem was he had a very fragile mental constitution - not a good attribute if you're a central banker - but he exerted this influence, particularly on Americans. They were just completely bowled over by him. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
Diabetes can take a toll on the body, taxing the heart, circulation, the kidneys and even the eyes. Now it's becoming clear that the disease may affect the brain as well, contributing to a decline in mental functioning...
Studies have shown that diabetes may speed up aging-related deficits in mental function and lead to a twofold increase in the risk of dementia. Some researchers have speculated that diabetes could even boost the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Roger Dixon, a psychologist at the University of Alberta in Canada, wanted to learn whether this was true and set out to study exactly how uncontrolled blood sugar affected the brain...
Dixon and his colleagues studied 41 adults with diabetes and 424 healthy adults between the ages of 53 and 90, and reported their findings in the journal Neuropsychology. After testing the participants on memory, recall, verbal fluency, executive functions involving critical thinking and the speed of their mental faculties, researchers found the most significant deficits in diabetes patients on tasks of executive function and speed. These problems showed up in the youngest patients as well as the older ones, and once the cognitive symptoms appeared, they did not seem to worsen or change over time. Although Dixon's study failed...
...table.” He noted that even without considerations of further state budget cuts, the CHA is due to lose $95 million this year and more in 2011 because of the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform bill. While Bailey did not say why the mental health services were among the first to be cut by the CHA, he pointed to inadequate state reimbursement for safety-net hospitals. “Mental health and addiction treatment is 48 or 49 percent of our [healthcare] makeup, and that is not reimbursed at a rate that is feasible,” Bailey...