Posts Tagged ‘ memory loss ’

UPenn researchers have just concluded an extensive study which shows that a spinal fluid test can be 100% accurate in identifying patients with memory loss who will eventually develop Alzheimer’s disease. The study which will publish today in the Archives of Neurology shows not just that a test can determine that a patient in...
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Scientists have established that there is indeed a genetic component to Alzheimer’s, APOE, which is connected to early onset types of the illness. The researchers haven’t found out what the genes actually do, but the hope is that by studying the genes, doctors will be one step closer to putting the pieces of...
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