3 Out Of 161 Factors May Be 'Most Harmful' For Brain Ageing

They seemed especially tough on the most fragile parts of the brain which were “particularly vulnerable to ageing and disease process”.

The Lancet’s standing commission on dementia has found that up to 45% of our dementia risk is down to “potentially modifiable” factors, like controlling your blood pressure and protecting your hearing.

But a 2024 paper published in Nature Communications tried to look more specifically at the “network of higher-order brain regions particularly vulnerable to the ageing process, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease”.

Researchers wanted to see whether this so-called “weak spot” was especially responsive to things like alcohol, physical........

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