Depression can contribute to memory loss and vice-versa, according to researchers who studied around 8,200 British people over two decades. The team found “linear change in depressive symptoms” to have “contributed to accelerated memory loss” among the participating group, which was made up of people aged 50 and up and with a mean age of 64. But not only does depression affect memory, the reverse appears also true, the researchers reported, in a paper published by the American Medical Association. “A steeper change in memory was also reciprocally associated with a more rapid change in depressi…