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Anchor lead: Integrating several pieces of data may point the way toward early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Cognitive testing, brain scans, and many other measures over twenty years in people at risk to develop Alzheimer’s disease may …
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Anchor lead: A new study may point the way to early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Finding out that people are on the road to developing Alzheimer’s disease early may make intervening more effective, and a new test …
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Anchor lead: Can a new method for assessing early Alzheimer’s point the way to more effective therapies? Elizabeth Tracey reports Removing amyloid from the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease didn’t change disease progression, the latest disappointing study found. Now …
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Anchor lead: Can a new form of brain imaging help spot Alzheimer’s disease earlier? Elizabeth Tracey reports Alzheimer’s disease may be easier to stop if we diagnose the condition earlier. Gwenn Smith, a brain imaging expert at Johns Hopkins, and …
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Anchor lead: Does keeping blood pressure in control reduce your risk of dementia? Elizabeth Tracey reports Keeping blood pressure in check didn’t reduce the development of dementia in older people, a recent study found, although the condition known as ‘mild …
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Anchor lead: Can you reduce your risk of dementia with training? Elizabeth Tracey reports Project Talent tested many teenagers in the 1960s and followed them until recently, finding that men with lower mechanical ability and women with lower linguistic ability …
