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Zanzenburger posted...

C7D posted...

Yes, but their presentation is largely inconsistent with the time frame. Many of the issues seniors face today are more consistent with brain morphology rather than strictly environment.

I'm not gonna pretend to argue with you on that since I am not an expert on the subject.

What I will say is my own theory on it: could it possibly have to do with the fact that they had the issues all along but we just didn't have the technology or knowhow to diagnose them?

Afterall, prior to recent area, illness was seen as a weakness and people tried desperately to shrug it off, sleep it off, or drink it off. People hid their darkness demons for fear of social ridicule or worse, the inability to serve for those that wanted to do so.

Mental illness has always been an issue. There is no question. I used to hear stories about that from relatives who "weren't right". That's all they knew to say about it at the time.

When I was in grad school, I developed new clinical diagnostic tools. We wrote a grant proposal with a neurosurgeon to NIH on attempting to find certain compounds which were consistent with Alzheimer's. We got to the final stage, but our proposal was not funded while I was a grad student.