{"id":2699,"date":"2025-05-29T14:05:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/alzheimers-disease-hits-decades-before-patients-notice-memory-loss\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T14:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:05:51","slug":"alzheimers-disease-hits-decades-before-patients-notice-memory-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/alzheimers-disease-hits-decades-before-patients-notice-memory-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer&#039;s disease hits decades before patients notice memory loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-29 14:05:50<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Early signs of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease could surface decades before patients spot signs of memory loss.<BR><br \/>\nScientists have found that the illness &#8211; the most common type of dementia &#8211; develops in phases and begins to afflict people by &#8220;stealth&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nThe new study revealed that spatial awareness issues, like having trouble with a sat nav or standing awkwardly close to somebody, are the earliest warning signs and strike up to 20 years before traditional symptoms appear.<BR><br \/>\nBoffins at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle examined the post-mortem brains of 84 Alzheimer&#8217;s patients and uncovered evidence of early brain cell death well before the damage was visible on scans.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Igor Camargo Fontana, director of scientific conference programming at Alzheimer&#8217;s Association, told Science Focus of the findings: &#8220;The disease&#8217;s long pre-symptomatic and silent period creates opportunities for early detection, early intervention and even prevention of dementia symptoms.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-29 14:05:50 Early signs of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease could surface decades before patients spot signs of memory loss. Scientists have found that the illness &#8211; the most common type of dementia&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}