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Again, from The Nun Study, some general sense of what might
change or not. Lower linguistic ability in early life predicts dementia and earlier death.
Again, even a smaller set of cohorts, 74 nuns ages 74-97. And again they used the same
autobiographies written at 30-60, a long time ago, to measure idea density and they looked
at the ratio of the idea density to neurofibrillary tangle count. They found the idea of
density related to the tangle counts but unrelated to any vascular changes that the
individuals might have experienced before their death. |