With your risk of Parkinsons' post stroke your doctor now needs to definitely train you in lucid dreaming so you can change the dreams for the better.
Your risk of Parkinsons here:
Parkinson’s Disease May Have Link to Stroke March 2017
lucid dreaming (20 posts to January 2013) So 9+ years for your doctors to come up with lucid dreaming protocols. How incompetent were they in that job?
Distressing dreams, cognitive decline, and risk of dementia: A prospective study of three population-based cohorts
Summary
Background
Distressing
dreams are associated with faster cognitive decline and increased
dementia risk in people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Whether
distressing dreams might be associated with cognitive decline and
dementia in people without PD is unknown. This study investigated the
association between self-reported distressing dream frequency and the
risk of cognitive decline and incident dementia in community-dwelling
men and women without cognitive impairment or PD.
Methods
Risk
of cognitive decline was evaluated in 605 middle-aged adults (mean
age = 50 years [IQR 44–57]; 55·7% female) from the Midlife in the United
States (MIDUS) study, who were cognitively normal at baseline, and were
followed-up for a maximum of 13 years (IQR 9–10). Cognitive decline was
defined as having an annual rate of decline in global cognitive
function (measured using five cognitive tests) ≥ 1 standard deviation
faster than the mean decline rate from baseline to follow-up. Risk of
incident all-cause dementia was evaluated in 2600 older adults (mean
age = 83 years [IQR 81–84]; 56·7% female) pooled from the Osteoporotic
Fractures in Men Study (MrOS) and the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures
(SOF), who were dementia-free at baseline, and were followed-up for up a
maximum of 7 years (IQR 4–5). Incident dementia was based on
doctor-diagnosis. Frequency of distressing dreams was assessed in all
cohorts at baseline (January 2002 – March 2012) using item 5h of the
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. The association between self-reported
distressing dream frequency (“never”, “less than weekly”, “weekly”) and
later cognitive outcomes, was evaluated using multivariable logistic
regression in both the middle-aged and pooled older adult cohorts.
Findings
After
adjustment for all covariates, a higher frequency of distressing dreams
was linearly and statistically significantly associated with higher
risk of cognitive decline amongst middle-aged adults (P for trend = 0·016), and higher risk of incident all-cause dementia amongst older adults (P
for trend <0·001). Compared with middle-aged adults who reported
having no distressing dreams at baseline, those who reported having
weekly distressing dreams had a 4-fold risk of experiencing cognitive
decline (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 3·99; 95% CI: 1·07, 14·85). Amongst
older adults, the difference in dementia risk was 2·2-fold (aOR = 2·21;
95% CI: 1·35, 3·62). In sex-stratified analyses, the associations
between distressing dreams and both cognitive outcomes were only
statistically significant amongst men.
Interpretation
Distressing
dreams predict cognitive decline and all-cause dementia in middle-aged
and older adults without cognitive impairment or PD - especially amongst
men. These findings may help to identify individuals at risk of
dementia and could facilitate early prevention strategies.
Funding
The study received no external funding.
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