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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 …
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Anchor lead: Amyloid and Alzheimer’s disease isn’t always important, Elizabeth Tracey reports Aggressively removing amyloid from the brains of people who had Alzheimer’s disease only slightly slowed their rate of cognitive decline, a recent study found. Constantine Lyketsos, an Alzheimer’s …
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Anchor lead: A treatment for Alzheimer’s disease seems to offer modest benefit, Elizabeth Tracey reports A drug that’s been under investigation for some time has finally produced some modest benefit in removing the substance called amyloid from the brains of …
