P Gerretsen is supported by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Research Fellowship. BG Pollock receives research support from the NIH, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, American ...

From allergies to insomnia, there’s a pill for just about every problem. The problem is, those pills often come with a lengthy list of potential side effects. And in the quest to cure what ails us as ...

A class of drug commonly used to treat everything from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to depression has now been linked to accelerating the loss of mobility in older age. This adds a new ...

There are a number of things that can increase the risk of dementia: age, of course, as well as certain genetic profiles and behaviors such as smoking and drinking. Some of the same things that ...

Cognitive impairment can result when older adults are taking or given medications with strong anticholinergic effects, a new study has found. Anticholinergic drugs block acetylcholine, a nervous ...

Anticholinergic drugs that are commonly prescribed as antidepressants or for treating incontinence are linked with an increased risk of dementia, even when taken 20 years before cognitive impairment ...

People over age 65 who frequently take over-the-counter sleep aids and certain other commonly used drugs may be increasing their risk of dementia, new findings show. In the study, the researchers ...

Antidepressant medications are among a broad group of commonly-prescribed drugs linked to an increased risk of dementia. Prolonged, daily use of some anticholinergic drugs – a group of medications ...

Anticholinergics are effective for some drug-induced movement disorders and not others because the mechanisms differ. Though patients may present with similar symptoms, not all drug-induced movement ...

Recent studies have sparked warnings regarding commonly prescribed medications that could hike the risk of dementia. The research indicates that drugs widely used for bladder conditions, Parkinson's ...

2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, 33 Russell Street, T-109 Toronto, ON M5S 2S1, Canada 3 Multimodal Imaging Group, Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, Toronto, ...