CHICAGO: Researchers have devised a memory test for predicting Alzheimer’s disease nearly two decades before it fully develops, proving that symptoms for the debilitating condition may show up much earlier than previously thought.
“The changes in thinking and memory that precede obvious symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease begin decades before,” said the new study. “While we cannot currently detect such changes in individuals at risk, we were able to observe them among a group of individuals who eventually developed dementia due to Alzheimer’s,” said…