While some of the risk factors for Alzheimer's disease are known, such as high blood pressure or diabetes, the potential role of non-biological elements is being explored.
Scientists from the University of Geneva and the Geneva University Hospitals in Switzerland confirmed that there are certain personality traits that protect brain structures from Alzheimer's disease.
Among these features, people who are less gentle, but who have a natural curiosity and less bowing, have shown better preservation of areas of the brain that tend to atrophy, both with age and Alzheimer's disease.
In their study, which relied on examining a large group of people over the age of 65, several times over five years, the researchers found that the brain of unfriendly people who did not fear discrepancies and showed a degree of non-compliance was better protected. In addition, this protection exists in memory circuits that are damaged by Alzheimer's disease, according to the Science Daily website.
Professor Panteleimon Giannakopoulos, a psychiatrist at the University of Geneva Medical School and head of the Institutional Procedure Department at Geneva University Hospitals who headed the work, said: “The highly adaptable characters are of a high level of kindness, which are characters who want to align with the desires of others to avoid conflict and strive To cooperate. This differs from being open to others. You can be very open, but you are not very nice as is the case with narcissistic figures, for example.