Reduced Brain Volume May Predict Dementia In Healthy Elderly People

... Reduced volume, or atrophy, in parts of the brain known as the amygdala and hippocampus may predict which cognitively healthy elderly people will develop dementia over a six-year period, according to a study in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. New strategies may be able to prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer''s disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia among older adults, according to background information in the article... click link for more info. ...