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“The first thing we do is a regular MRI, which just looks at the structure of the brain to see, ‘Is there a lot of atrophy or brain shrinkage? Is there a lesion in the brain that would be the reason that the person is having cognitive decline.”
And they can look for fragments of protein in the brain called amyloid.
“There are certain PET scans where we can look at the amount of amyloid in the brain, and that is a marker of Alzheimer’s Disease,” Manning says.
Sometimes the findings suggest typical, age-related changes.
“Normal age related decline includes things like forgetting names very, very common. Proper nouns – common to have a harder time with that.” Manning explains.
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Sea birds have long nested near the Hampton Roads Bridge and Tunnel complex because the waters around it are rich with food, and at Virginia’s Department of Wildlife Resources, Director Ryan Brown says the new habitat has served them well.
“The project actually resulted in the most successful nesting season that we have on record for that area on this new innovative habitat that is the first of its type to be constructed on the east coast of the United States.”
Crews spread sand across about two acres on Ft. Wool – an island built in 1813 to bolster neighboring Fort Monroe. They removed trees where predators could perch and anchored barges at the shore. That suited the birds, but historic preservationists are squawking. They say too little attention has been given to Ft. Wool with its parade ground and steel tower used to keep watch during World War II. They’d like the island restored and public tours resumed.
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