Researchers from the American institutes of research have established that a predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease in humans can be detected in the school youth, at the stage of adolescence. The results of their study showed that, published the journal the JAMA Network Open.
The tests on cognitive ability in adolescence allow us to identify people with a high probability in the future will have to wait for Alzheimer’s disease, was found by the experts. In particular, they concluded that to this dangerous disease in the elderly may be prone teenagers, which during testing is characterized by fewer words and have difficulty with the technical thinking.
This conclusion by the authors of the new study was made after they analyzed data from a large-scale project Talent, in which in 1960-e years several hundred thousand students were tested for cognitive abilities. Comparing the obtained during the tests information as the project participants had time to age, experts have found that those who the results of the tests in adolescence scored fewer points was most strongly predisposed to the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease.
“Men whose score on the results of the tests were below average in the future 17% higher risk of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. For women the figure was 16%,” – said the experts of the American Institute of research.
According to lead author of this work Susan Lapham, communicating with elderly participants in project Talent, researchers found that most of meridiameridia old people are afraid of dementia. Therefore, the expert emphasizes, it is important to pay attention to the children in school and carry out cognitive tests – they will help a lot in advance concerned to keep your brain healthy.
By the way, scientists have not yet fully completed. They intend to investigate also the long-term impact of school education on brain health and the impact of socio-economic status on cognitive ability and mental peculiarities of the people.
Recall that Alzheimer’s disease is currently fatal and incurable disease. Representing a form of dementia, this disease is characterized by accumulations in the brain of beta-amyloid and Tau-protein is destructive to neurons. The symptoms of Alzheimer’s include memory problems, impaired ability to remember new information and planning, loss of the ability to recognize loved ones, speech disorders, violent outbursts, apathy.
Earlier Magicforum wrote that scientists have found a new way to rescue the brain from Alzheimer’s disease.