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Prevent Alzheimer’s? Start as a teenager!

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A Waterloo researcher is looking at the link between high school grades and the complexity of essays written in early adulthood to the risk of Alzheimer’s decades later.

“We know that early brain development is important later in life,” said applied health sciences professor Suzanne Tyas at the University of Waterloo.

Potentially that could lead to strategies to build “cognitive resilience” to reduce the impact of Alzheimer’s disease, which destroys brain cells.

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Insight in how brain atrophy can explain various manifestations of Alzheimer’s

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Mathematical modeling of the brain scans of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and others at risk for the devastating neurodegenerative disorder has identified specific patterns of brain atrophy that appear to be related to the loss of particular cognitive abilities. In their report that has been published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the National University of Singapore describe how different atrophy patterns may explain the different ways that Alzheimer’s disease can be manifested in individual patients.

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