The question of genetic vs environmental influences plays a major role in research into brain aging, with researchers from UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA) revealing new insights into one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease—amyloid plaques—by looking at the brains of identical and non-identical twins.
The world first study, led by Dr. Rebecca Koncz and published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, used a…