If a new medical study is any indication, Wall Street may be headed for some serious mental trouble. Researchers from the University of Alabama have published new findings on early warnings for Alzheimer’s which show that a decline in financial skills could be an indication of the disease’s onset. An examination of 87 patients revealed that Alzheimer’s patients can have trouble doing math a year before being diagnosed with the neurological disorder. Given that the financial crisis is now about a year old, there might well be a run on doctors’ appointments by bankers in the very near future.
                                                                                                                                                          -Noel Brinkerhoff

Money Problems “Signal Dementia” (BBC News)
Declining Financial Capacity in Mild Cognitive Impairment (by K.L. Triebel et al, Neurology Journal)