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Wednesday, October 14. 2009

Spatial Thinking Decline May be Early Indicator of Alzheimers

Researchers from the University of Kansas published an article in the Archives of Neurology that suggests that “visuospatial” problems (trouble reading maps or building jigsaw puzzles) tend to appear about two or three years before memory loss. The study involved 444 people over the course of an average of six years; 134 developed Alzheimer’s.

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