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Editorial on common mental health disorders and cognitive decline in a longitudinal Down syndrome cohort
Samuel J Tromans1, Pushpal Desarkar2
1Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; and Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.
Abstract:
This editorial discusses a study by Idris and colleagues, where the authors investigated the impact of common mental disorders (CMDs) among patients with Down syndrome, with respect to development of clinical features of Alzheimer's disease.
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