Brain disease lurks in the minds of Seniors

I knew it! It's been lurking in my head, feeding off my memories, insidious little pathogen. Well at least I won't be alone.

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com NEW YORK Results of a brain autopsy study indicate that most older adults have significant brain disease, regardless of the presence or absence of outward signs of dementia researchers evaluated the spectrum of abnormalities found in the brains of 141 older adults, with and without clinically evident dementia. older persons with dementia had more than one type of pathology in their brain Older persons without dementia also frequently had brain disease, prevention of not only Alzheimer’s disease but these other pathologies, particularly stroke and those things that may increase the risk of stroke, like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, obesity, “are likely to significantly decrease the prevalence of dementia we may wish to maximize medical management of vascular risk factors in the growing elderly population, regardless of whether cognition is still normal or there are signs of overt dementia The findings are published in the journal Neurology