{"id":185726,"date":"2024-03-22T00:24:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/unlocking-the-mystery-of-cognitive-decline-before-dementia"},"modified":"2024-03-22T00:24:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T05:24:15","slug":"unlocking-the-mystery-of-cognitive-decline-before-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/unlocking-the-mystery-of-cognitive-decline-before-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the Mystery of Cognitive Decline Before Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-the-mystery-of-cognitive-decline-before-dementia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Study finds language-processing difficulties are an indicator \u2014 more so than memory loss \u2014 of amnestic mild cognitive impairment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Individuals with mild cognitive impairment, especially of the \u201camnestic subtype\u201d (aMCI), are at increased risk for dementia due to Alzheimer\u2019s disease relative to cognitively healthy older adults. Now, a study co-authored by researchers from MIT, Cornell University, and Massachusetts General Hospital has identified a key deficit in people with aMCI, which relates to producing complex language.<\/p>\n<p>This deficit is independent of the memory deficit that characterizes this group and may provide an additional \u201ccognitive biomarker\u201d to aid in early detection \u2014 the time when treatments, as they continue to be developed, are likely to be most effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds language-processing difficulties are an indicator \u2014 more so than memory loss \u2014 of amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Individuals with mild cognitive impairment, especially of the \u201camnestic subtype\u201d (aMCI), are at increased risk for dementia due to Alzheimer\u2019s disease relative to cognitively healthy older adults. Now, a study co-authored by researchers from MIT, Cornell [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}