HOUSTON: Alzheimer’s ‘ground zero’ – the site in the brain where the disease first strikes – has been discovered, it was announced today.
Researchers say a critical but vulnerable region in the brain, the locus coeruleus, is subject to damage decades before dementia patients start to show symptoms.
Buried towards the base of the brain stem, the locus coeruleus may be more important for cognitive function than previously appreciated, according to a new review of the medical evidence.
In dementia patients, it becomes damaged as early as the mid-twenties, according to experts…