New research suggests that adjusting memory test scoring could help identify more women with mild cognitive impairment, a precursor to Alzheimer's.
Women may be more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, but men are typically diagnosed at earlier stages, when symptoms are mild. By tweaking memory tests a little, more women might be caught at an early stage of the disease, when they can benefit from treatment, a study suggests.
Verbal memory refers to the ability to memorize information, to remember words and to recall stories. The same verbal ability that allows women to score higher on memory tests also helps them to compensate for the damage that Alzheimer's does to their brains for a longer period of time, the research indicates.
The verbal advantage allows women “to hang on longer," she said."But once the brain changes surpass their ability to compensate, they tank and decline faster.”For the new study, Sundermann and her colleagues analyzed data from 453 women and 532 men who were participants in the Alzheimer’s Neuroimaging Initiative.
The new study “is a persuasive first step, showing that correcting for sex differences in verbal memory performance seems to better align with the underlying biology of Alzheimer’s disease,” said Beth Snitz, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Pittsburgh and a neuropsychologist at the university’s Alzheimer Disease Research Center.and in drilling down to understand them,” Snitz said in an email.
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