A pilot study suggests MRI brain scans may help predict whether older people will develop dementia. MRI scans are relatively inexpensive, widely available and give doctors a glimpse into what’s going on inside a person’s brain.
In the study, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of California San Francisco used MRI brain scans to predict with 89 percent accuracy who would go on to develop dementia within three years.
The findings,...
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