Editorial on common mental health disorders and cognitive decline in a longitudinal Down syndrome cohort

Samuel J Tromans; Pushpal Desarkar

doi:10.1192/bjo.2024.16

Editorial on common mental health disorders and cognitive decline in a longitudinal Down syndrome cohort

BJPsych Open. 2024 Apr 11;10(3):e77. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2024.16.

Authors

Samuel J Tromans¹, Pushpal Desarkar²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; and Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada; and Adult Neurodevelopmental Services, Centre for Addiction of Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.

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.

Keywords: Down syndrome; anxiety; dementia; depression; intellectual disability.