March 04th, 2022

Mental disorders in early life are associated with a significantly increased risk of dementia in later years.
Results of a large, longitudinal, population-based study show that individuals hospitalized for a mental health disorder had a fourfold increased relative risk (RR) for developing dementia compared to those who were not hospitalized with a mental illness. This should come as no surprise to psychotherapists and those involved with treating individuals with trauma in their history. Researchers have already reported on the increased incidence of early onset dementia with any history of head trauma and other studies have clearly correlated the exhibiting of violent behavior with the degree of diagnosable brain trauma a person has sustained. 

We must become evermore cognizant of the need to have the differential diagnosis for the entire range of psychiatric and behavioral disorders across the lifespan include a neurotrauma/biophysical/toxicological trauma component. 

Quietmind has evolved it's evaluation protocol according to this tripartite framework, wherein we employ functional medicine to determine the contribution of mold and other neurotoxins, bacterial and viral infections, genetic predispositions and lifestyle factors. That data is combined with individual Quantitative EEG neurophysiological, systems-oriented psychological and  neuropsychiatric assessments.   

Article click here: www.medscape.com/