June 19, 2005
Brain Scan May Predict Alzheimer's Disease
Researchers scanned the brains of middle-aged and older people while they were still healthy. They discovered that lower energy usage in a part of the brain called the hippocampus correctly signaled who would get Alzheimer's or a related memory impairment 85 percent of the time. (AP)
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