Cognitive impairment in mental illness associated with faster cellular ageing

https://www.monash.edu/medicine/news/latest/2022-articles/cognitive-impairment-in-mental-illness-associated-with-faster-cellular-ageing

“Most medications don’t target cognition, so people are left with cognitive impairments even when, for example with schizophrenia, their hallucinations and delusions get better with their anti-psychotic medication. We need to better understand what’s underpinning these cognitive impairments so we can develop better treatments.

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I wonder why. Very interesting concept. I didn’t read the article but I looked up cellular aging. I wonder what the link is

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Let them try out GlyNAC, which recently showed some positive impact on aging markers, albeit in a tiny sample of volunteers.

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