We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about how everything from blood markers to struggles with spatial awareness could flag a higher dementia risk years before diagnosis.
And according to a study conducted by University of Cambridge scientists, some forms of dementia might manifest as a personality change “decades” before it’s spotted in a clinical setting.
“It is not depression, or laziness, but it can be mistaken for them,” the University of Cambridge’s site reads.
Apathy may be a very early sign of frontotemporal dementia
This research, published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia, involved 304 healthy people who carried a gene that made ...
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