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Research adds to evidence that healthier pre-industrial lifestyles may hold clues to preventing Alzheimer's and other dementias. As scientists around the world seek solutions for Alzheimer's disease, a new study reveals that two indigenous groups.
We know about the devastating effect that Alzheimer s and other types of dementia can have on people – but what s less clear is how they get started in the brain and what can be done to cure them or prevent them from happening in the first place.
Researchers working with a remote population in the Amazon have found the group experiences extraordinarily low rates of dementia. The study follows on from prior findings that the same group displayed almost no cases of age-related heart disease.