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- From: bowkay <bowkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:30:36 +1000
Daydreaming activity linked to Alzheimer's
Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:23 AM IST8
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The parts of the brain that young, healthy people use when daydreaming are the same areas that fail in people who have Alzheimer's disease, researchers reported on Wednesday in a study that may someday help in preventing or diagnosing the disease.
The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggests that the way people use their brains could actually lead to Alzheimer's disease.
"It may be the normal cognitive function of the brain that leads to Alzheimer's later in life. This was not a relationship we had even considered," said Randy Buckner, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Washington University in St. Louis who led the study.
The relationships are not clear and do not yet suggest that daydreaming is dangerous, but further study may shed light on the relationship, the study said.
The study found that Alzheimer's mostly affects the brain's "default state" regions -- used when musing or daydreaming.(cont.)
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