Cranky old people better at fending of Alzheimer’s

Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 10:00 in Biology & Nature

Using brain imaging, a team from the University of Geneva and the HUG show that elderly people with low agreeableness are better protected against Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease, the main cause of dementia in the elderly, is a neurodegenerative disease caused by the irreversible destruction of neuronal networks in certain brain structures affecting memory. While […]

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