National Institutes of Health (NIH) Study Finds Mix of Disease Processes at Work in Brains of Most People with Dementia

Few older people die with brains untouched by a pathological process, however, an individual? likelihood of having clinical signs of dementia increases with the number of different disease processes present in the brain, according to a new study. The research was funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, and conducted at the Rush Alzheimer? Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Julie Schneider, M.D., and colleagues report the findings in the journal Neurology online today.