Brain cells disappeared? Senile coming

People who have lost a few cells in a region "hippocampus" in the brain more likely to be attacked by sick memory, said several scientists in the journal "American Academy of Neurology."

Dr. Wouter J.P. Henneman, from Vu University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues used MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) to measure the volume of the entire brain, and the "hippocampus" in the 64 Alzheimer's patients early in their studies and once again an average of 18 months later in order to take into account number of brain shrinkage.

Study participants included 44 people with mild disorders of cognitive resources (MCI) and 34 patients who had no memory impairment or the power of thought which became "controlling".

During the study, the team found three "controllers" and 23 people with MCI have Alzheimer's disease, and the group of "controllers" with a volume of "hippocampus" is smaller and the larger the depreciation rate for a possible three to four times higher for infected compared with Alzheimer's volume "hippocampus" bigger and slower depreciation rate.

"These findings seem to reflect that at the stage of mild cognitive disorder, a prominent atrophy is already occurring in the 'hippocampus'," said study author Henneman. "In people who have Alzheimer's disease, loss of nerve cells more scattered throughout the brain."

"The pace of regional atrophy 'hippocampus' is the most powerful indicator of the development of Alzheimer's disease," the researchers concluded the study.