Higher Inflammation In 20s Linked To Executive Dysfunction In Midlife

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Anuradha Varanasi is a freelance science writer. She writes on the intersection of health/medicine, racial disparities, and climate change. She earned an MA in Science Journalism from Columbia University in New York City.

Sharpey MD, LLD, FRS L&E, Allen Thomson, MD, LLD, FRS L&E, and Edward Albert Schafer) depicts the right half of the brain divided by a vertical antero-posterior section, 1876. study found that people who experience consistently higher or moderate inflammation during their early adulthood might be far more prone to poor executive function in midlife.

“We know from long-term studies that brain changes leading to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias may take decades to develop,” said the first author of thestudy, Amber Bahorik of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, in a press release. “We wanted to see if health and lifestyle habits in early adulthood may play a part in cognitive skills in midlife, which, in turn, may influence the likelihood of dementia in later life.

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