Healthy people with a higher genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease may show differences in brain structure and in cognitive test scores relating to reasoning and attention, according to a new study.
The University of Glasgow research—published today in Neuropsychopharmacology—suggests that, although the association between these differences in people with a higher genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease were small, the link suggests signs of the devastating disease may be detectable before significant symptoms are obvious.
This is the largest study to date investigating the genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease and…
