{"id":152,"date":"2003-12-02T01:20:27","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T01:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:33:41","slug":"mri-helps-predict-memory-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"MRI helps predict memory loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers have found a way to use magnetic  resonance imaging, or MRI, to help predict who will sustain memory  decline, according to a study appearing in the December issue of  <em>Radiology.<\/em> Henry Rusinek of the New York University School of Medicine  and his colleagues showed that tracking the atrophy rate of a specific  area of the brain called the medial temporal lobe was highly predictive  of future cognitive decline. (The medial temporal lobe is near regions  of the brain critical to forming new memories.) The researchers studied  45 healthy adults over the age of 60 over a six-year period. All the  patients were given initial MRI scans and neurological tests, and then  two or more follow-up exams later on. During the study period, 13  patients demonstrated cognitive decline, and the atrophy rate of the  temporal lobe proved to be the most significant predictor with an  accuracy rate of 89 percent. Elderly adults with mild cognitive problems  are more likely to decline to dementia than healthy senior citizens. If  the changes involved with those problems could be detected earlier,  therapy could be started sooner.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 12\/02\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found a way to use magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, to help predict who will sustain memory decline, according to a study appearing in the December issue of Radiology. Henry Rusinek of the New York University School of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}