Here Comes 'Dementia Screening' For Adults as Young as 25 (With Yet More Drugs to be Prescribed)

Proteins called amyloid plaques which build up in the brain of dementia sufferers are thought to be linked to the onset of symptoms such as memory loss and mental impairment.

Now scientists claim to have established a link between the production of the plaques and a separate process through which the brain converts sugar into energy, known as aerobic glycolysis.

Scans of a group of young adults, whose average age was 25, showed that aerobic glycolysis was especially high in the same areas of the brain where amyloid plaques build up in older patients, including Alzheimer's sufferers.'

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