(HealthDay)—As researchers hone in on ways to detect whether someone has a high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease before they have any symptoms, mental health professionals have worried what the psychological fallout of that knowledge might be.
But new research suggests that people can handle the truth.
In the study, seniors who didn’t have any Alzheimer’s symptoms underwent a special type of imaging scan to see if they had amyloid plaque deposits in their brains. The presence of these plaques means someone has a much higher risk of developing the memory-robbing condition.
A month or two after learning that they had these deposits, the seniors in the study who got the bad news…
