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who have lost brain cells in the hippocampus area of the brain
are more likely to develop dementia, researchers report. The
findings add to a growing body of evidence that shrinkage of the
brain, particularly in the hippocampal area, may be an early
sign of Alzheimer's disease, occurring years before obvious
memory loss and other symptoms appear. The study, from
researchers in the Netherlands, appeared in Neurology, the
medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. It
involved 64 people with Alzheimer's disease, 44 people with mild
cognitive impairment, a less severe form of memory loss that
sometimes precedes Alzheimer's disease, and 34 people with no
memory or thinking problems. The researchers performed MRI brain
scans on all of the participants at the beginning of the