title: Scotland wages battle against mental decline.
abstract: One thousand volunteers, all around 71 years old, gathered in Edinburgh to take part in an historic scientific study to help combat mental decline. The Disconnected Mind study will run until 2015 and has been set up to 'inspire better treatments and to show how lifestyles, diet etc can delay the onset of mental decline'. delay the onset of mental decline'. The study is being performed by the University of Edinburgh and is funded by Help The Aged. The volunteers attended the event exactly 60 years to the day after they took part in the 1947 Scottish Mental Survey.