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AI can tell if your brain is aging faster than you are

ScienceDailyFriday, July 31, 2026 at 7:05 AM

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AI can tell if your brain is aging faster than you are
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A person’s sleeping brain may reveal warning signs of dementia long before memory problems begin. Researchers used machine learning to analyze EEG recordings from about 7,000 adults and found that an older-than-expected “brain age” was tied to a sharply higher dementia risk.

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Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product. A person’s sleeping brain may reveal warning signs of dementia long before memory problems begin. Researchers used machine learning to analyze EEG recordings from about 7,000 adults and found that an older-than-expected “brain age” was tied to a sharply higher dementia risk.

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A person’s sleeping brain may reveal warning signs of dementia long before memory problems begin. Researchers used machine learning to analyze EEG recordings from about 7,000 adults and found that an older-than-expected “brain age” was tied to a sharply higher dementia risk.

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Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product.

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