Researchers at the University of Navarra Develop a Method to Detect Dementia Seven Years Before Receiving a Diagnosis

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Neurodegenerative diseases are usually diagnosed when symptoms are already evident. In this context, a team of Spanish researchers have arrived at a new biomarker capable of predicting the risk of dementia up to seven years in advance. The study, in which 88 older adults with small memory failure have participated, has revealed that the brain emits alarm signals long before conventional memory tests. However, no one had found the form of "read t…