A new study has found that a genetic mutation linked with Alzheimer's disease could lead to accelerated loss of brain tissue and thereby causing faster mental decline. People with the TREM2 gene variant lost brain tissue twice as fast as healthy elderly people, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. "This is the first study to use brain scans to show what this gene variant does, and it's very surprising," said co-author ...You have just read an article categorized health
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