Researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have conducted a study which allows estimating the effects of isolation in the current pandemic scenarios in elderly patients with dementia. The findings could serve as a guide to the rethinking of these conditions after the COVID-19 crisis. The study was published in a special edition of Frontiers in Psychiatry dedicated to assessing the effects of the pandemic.
The researchers analyzed the effects of isolation in male mice models suffering from advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease through a series of behavioral tests, which could be compared to several areas found…
