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Blood vessels in older brains break down, possibly leading to Alzheimer’s
January 21, 2015 by NewsBot
Researchers used high-resolution imaging of the living human brain to show for the first time that the brain's protective blood barrier becomes leaky with age, starting at the hippocampus, a critical learning and memory center that is damaged by Alzheimer's disease.
