Accelerated Pace of Brain Aging in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/11/accelerated-pace-of-brain-aging-in-patients-with-mild-cognitive-impairment/

Brain age is a measure of volume and structure of the brain derived from machine learning techniques applied to databases of imaging of brain tissue at various ages and in healthier individuals versus patients with neurodegenerative conditions. Here, researchers demonstrate that, as one might expect, brain age is higher in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. Surprisingly, however, there is a greater acceleration of brain aging in the earlier mild cognitive impairment stage than in the later Alzheimer’s disease stage. This is another data point indicating the need for early intervention in the path towards Alzheimer’s disease.

Brain age is a machine learning-derived es…

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