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Dementia Breakthrough: Brain Scans Predict Disease Up to 9 Years Early


Diagnosing dementia early gives us more time to put precautions in place and to study exactly how the condition progresses – and a new method for predicting conditions such as Alzheimer's disease is promising up to nine years of advance warning.

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