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UCLA Researchers Map Links Between Size of Hippocampus and Progression to Alzheimer’s Dementia
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UCLA researchers sought to test the theory that the hippocampus — the area of the brain that processes memory — is smaller in patients with mild cognitive impairment who develop into Alzheimer's dementia, and that it is larger in patients with mild cognitive impairment who experience cognitive stability or improvement. Using novel 3-D mapping techniques to analyze MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) data from 20 patients with mild cognitive impairment, they found that the patients with the smaller hippocampus did, in fact, face an increased risk of developing dementia.
Enrique Rivero
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/UCLA-Researchers-Map-Links-Between-7029.aspx
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