Sentences with phrase «mild cognitive impairment due»

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Researchers have developed a new cognitive test that can better determine whether memory impairments are due to very mild Alzheimer's disease or the normal aging process.

The operationalization of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) led to targeting earlier symptomatic cases of the illness and treatment strategies based less on pathology and more on a chance to halt or slow decline than there would be earlier in the disease.1 With the development of amyloid imaging, MCI due to AD diagnosis was refined, 2 and early - stage AD was extended further to include preclinical AD, 3 wherein a positive amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scan or diagnostic low levels of cerebrospinal fluid β - amyloid (Aβ) indicated the presence of pathology in people who were cognitively normal.

The study focused on participants having mild cognitive impairment, due to the fact many were most likely going to develop Alzheimer's disease in just a few years.

In addition, the 25 percent of the participants who had mild cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's also experienced an increase in brain volume due to the higher amounts of exercise.