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Article: AD disease is not accelerated aging.(Alzheimer disease)
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- World Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- October 19, 2004
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2004 OCT 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Certain brain changes that are common in normal aging are not the beginnings of Alzheimer disease. Recent research by cognitive aging experts suggests that changes related to Alzheimer disease appear in distinct regions of the brain and reflect unique pathology compared with changes that occur in older adults without dementia.
"We're getting a better understanding of the complex constellation of factors that change [in the brain] with aging," said Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher Randy L. Buckner of Washington University in St. Louis. "When you start to look across the literature, lots of data points converge ...