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Poor eyesight unfairly mistaken for brain decline
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Poor eyesight unfairly mistaken for brain decline

by University of South Australia Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Millions of older people with poor vision are at risk of being misdiagnosed with mild cognitive impairments, according to a new study by the University of South Australia. Cognitive tests that rely on vision-dependent tasks could be skewing results in up to a quarter of people...

Age, Alzheimer’s related brain decline linked to little-studied enzyme
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Age, Alzheimer’s related brain decline linked to little-studied enzyme

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA AT AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY IMAGE: DR. XIN-YUN LU CREDIT: MICHAEL HOLAHAN, AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 19, 2022) – A little-studied enzyme has been found in high levels in healthy neurons, levels that scientists say decline with age and more dramatically with Alzheimer’s, making adjusting the enzyme’s level a potential treatment for both. The...