Scientists Find Clues To Age-Related Memory Loss

Posted by | August 29, 2013 08:02 | Filed under: Good News


What they are discovering is a memory loss different than Alzheimer’s and, hopefully, eventually treatable.

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center examined brains, young and old ones, donated from people who died without signs of neurologic disease. They discovered that a certain gene in a specific part of the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center, quits working properly in older people. It produces less of a key protein.

That section of the brain, called the dentate gyrus, has long been suspected of being especially vulnerable to aging. Importantly, it’s a different neural neighborhood than where Alzheimer’s begins to form.

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