Brain Function May Drop Quickly Before Alzheimer’s

Memory and thinking skills can deteriorate quickly in people with mild cognitive impairment, the stage before Alzheimer’s disease, says a new study.

“These results show that we need to pay attention to this time before Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed, when people are just starting to have problems forgetting things,” study author Robert S. Wilson, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, said in a news release from the American Academy of Neurology.

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