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New study released on memory loss

12/29/11

New research reveals that small clusters of dead brain cells, commonly referred to as "silent strokes," found in about one in four older adults, could be linked to memory loss in senior citizens.

Set to be published in the January 3 print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, the study included 658 individuals age 65 and older receiving MRI brain scans. The MRIs showed 174 of the participants having had silent strokes. The silent stroke victims performed worse on memory tests than other patients, regardless of the size of their hippocampus, which is the part of the brain associated with memory.


"Given that conditions like Alzheimer's disease are defined mainly by memory problems, our results may lead to further insight into what causes symptoms and the development of new interventions for prevention," said Adam Brickman, study author. "Since silent strokes and the volume of the hippocampus appeared to be associated with memory loss separately in our study, our results also support stroke prevention as a means for staving off memory problems."

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