A recent study has examined potential predictive markers of Alzheimer disease (AD) and stroke. The results challenge some current assumptions, suggesting that stroke might often follow a decade of deterioration in brain structure and function, and that cognitive and MRI markers of AD differ in older and younger individuals.
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Ballard, C., O'Sullivan, M. Cognitive and neuroimaging predictors of AD and stroke. Nat Rev Neurol 9, 605–606 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2013.215
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