It often takes years for Alzheimer's symptoms such as memory loss to show up after a person develops the disease
A simple blood test could spot Alzheimer's a decade before a person starts to display symptoms, scientists have discovered.
The discovery of GFAP as a potential blood-marker could allow experts to prompt an early immune response. Proteins beta-amyloid and tau begin to form abnormally, causing the nerves in the brain to degenerate. As more brain neurons are damaged, sufferers begin to lose cognitive functions such as memory and speech.
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