Researchers use imaging technique to predict dementia status

brain_150NEW YORK: Researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Centre on Aging found that magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), a noninvasive imaging technique, might help distinguish between people with Down syndrome who have dementia and those who do not.

People with Down syndrome have a third copy of chromosome 21, and that chromosome is the same one responsible for the production of a molecule called amyloid precursor protein…

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