3 Out Of 161 Factors May Be 'Most Harmful' For Brain Ageing

Summary

The Lancet’s standing commission on dementia has found that up to 45% of our dementia risk is down to “potentially modifiable” factors, like controlling your blood pressure and protecting your hearing. But a 2024 paper published in Nature Communications tried to look more specifically at the “network of higher-order brain regions particularly vulnerable to the ageing process, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease”. Researchers wanted to see whether this so-called “weak spot” was especially responsive to things like alcohol, physical activity, and pollution. What’s with this “weak spot”? In…

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