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(Image from CNN) A study, from Elizabeth C. Mormino and her colleague, suggests that it is possible to detect the risk factors for sporadic Alzheimer’s in young adulthood. One way to detect the risk is check images of a patient’s hippocampus. If the patient has a small hippocampal volume, it connotes that the patient has various genetic risk for Alzheimer’s. The study was performed with 166 people with dementia, and 1,026 people without dementia (mean ages 75 years old), and used MRI ...