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    • Hidden fat predicts Alzheimer’s 20 years ahead of symptoms

    Hidden fat predicts Alzheimer’s 20 years ahead of symptoms

    Hidden fat predicts Alzheimer’s 20 years ahead of symptoms

    Researchers have linked a specific type of body fat to the abnormal proteins in the brain that are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease up to 20 years before the earliest symptoms of dementia appear, according to a study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

    Alzheimer’s disease may damage the brain in two phases

    Alzheimer’s disease may damage the brain in two phases

    Scientists analyzed the brains of 84 people, and the results, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggest that damage to one type of cell, called an inhibitory neuron, during the early phase may trigger the neural circuit problems that underlie the disease.