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...tend to stick to certain foods and environments, and given the same weather conditions, its members will develop at the same pace. Comparisons with baseline data will quickly tell the age of a particular specimen - and thus the time of death - and whether it has been transferred from its normal habitat...
...diagnosis of MCI can be confirmed with a magnetic-resonance scan of the brain. Typically, in cases of what turns out to be pre-Alzheimer's MCI, these images will reveal that the hippocampus, a central portion of the brain associated with short-term memory, is somewhat smaller than normal or even rather shrunken in appearance...
...guide them. Instead, they pulled together a group of 404 men and women between the ages of 45 and 103 and gave them a battery of psychological and memory tests. Nearly 230 study subjects had various levels of what we would now recognize as MCI. The rest had normal scores for their age and served as the control group...
...chosen at random but had volunteered to be part of the trial. Because a family member or someone close to them had already noticed a change in their mental acuity, the results of the trial may have been skewed. In addition, it's not easy to know where normal forgetfulness ends and clinically significant impairment begins. The Food and Drug Administration invited a panel of experts to Washington last week to try to tackle the problem. The National Institutes of Health has scheduled another meeting in the fall to see if they can come up with a more rigorous definition...
...been told I wasn't right for things," says Jolie. "I was always told I was too dark, strange looking...In this character I can finally be more myself. And it's shocking that this is who I am. I'm like, 'My God--why does this feel so normal...