As we head into midlife, memory issues can become more frequent. We “lose” words and misplace keys, but tend to shrug this off as normal.
But now a new study, conducted by neuroscientists at Trinity College Dublin’s School of Psychology, has found for the first time that self-assessing your own memory as poor (known as subjective memory problems) correlates more strongly with dementia risk factors (such as hypertension or loneliness) than performance on objective cognitive tests.
