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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Brain Cortex





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Brains may start showing signs of Alzheimer's disease about a decade before the condition is recognized by doctors, a new study suggests.
Brain scans showing shrinkage in the cerebral cortex of seniors who later developed dementia suggested that researchers had found a marker for Alzheimer's.
Measurements of those areas "could be very important indicators to help identify who may be at risk of developing Alzheimer's dementia," study researcher Leyla deToledo-Morrell, said in a news release. "If a drug therapy or treatment is developed in the future, those who are still without symptoms but at great risk would benefit the most from treatment." DeToledo-Morrell is a professor in the department of neurological sciences at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago./.../

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