Hi Devon,   Your are obviously Googling things and ahead of me on this so I will refer to any study you send me via private message or in here.   This is upsetting to you and I understand that.   I would tell you to try to live your life and not worry about this however that is most likely something you do not want to hear because it is hard for you to live with this.   I see my psychiatrist on Friday and will ask him if he knows about schizophrenia leading to dementia and how common or rare this occurrence is.   My main concern is that the benefit I could be to you would be to give you some kind of tools to use to cope with the memory loss.  It's all well and good to support you and understand that what you're going through is greatly upsetting you.  However, I'm a solution-oriented kind of person and would rather suggest ways you can minimize the effect of the memory problem.   I know that libraries sometimes have books about brain-power type exercise you can do to boost your memory.  Also: like associating names with features, like if you meet a person named Harry whose wearing a hat you can call him Harry Hat in your mind.   The specific exercises do not come to mind right now however I will go on Amazon.com and try to find books that I can let you know about.   Regards, Christina