Brain circuitry loss may be a very early sign of cognitive decline in healthy elderly people

The degeneration of a small, wishbone-shaped structure deep inside the brain may provide the earliest clues to future cognitive decline, long before healthy older people exhibit clinical symptoms of memory loss or dementia, a study by researchers with the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center has found.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-09/uoc...