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A new study may challenge what we thought we knew about brain aging<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Scientists have discovered that men\u2019s brains actually shrink faster than women\u2019s as they grow older, even though women are more likely to develop Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed more than 12,000 brain scans from nearly 5,000 healthy people between the ages of 17 and 95. Each participant had at least two MRI scans taken over time, allowing scientists to gauge how their brains changed as they aged.<\/p>\n

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Researcher Anne Ravndal, from the University of Oslo in Norway, said her team wanted to test whether the higher Alzheimer\u2019s rate in women<\/a> could be linked to gender differences in the brain.<\/p>\n

“Women are diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease more often than men, and since aging is the main risk factor, we wanted to test whether men\u2019s and women\u2019s brains change differently with age,” she told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

Men showed a faster rate of brain shrinkage across more regions than women. Areas related to memory, emotion and sensory processing \u2014 like the hippocampus and parahippocampal regions \u2014 were especially affected, the study found.<\/p>\n

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Women\u2019s brains, by contrast, appeared to maintain their size in more areas, though they did show slightly more enlargement in the brain\u2019s fluid-filled spaces, known as ventricles.<\/p>\n

“Our findings show that men experience greater structural brain decline across more regions, meaning that normal brain aging doesn\u2019t explain the sex difference in Alzheimer\u2019s rates<\/a>,” Ravndal said.<\/p>\n

As women are still diagnosed with the disease nearly twice as often, researchers concluded that brain size changes alone can\u2019t explain that gap.<\/p>\n

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“The results instead point toward other possible explanations, such as differences in longevity, diagnostic patterns or biological factors,” said Ravndal.<\/p>\n

For example, women tend to live longer<\/a>, which increases the window of time during which Alzheimer\u2019s can develop. Shifts in estrogen during menopause could also affect how brain cells age, experts say.<\/p>\n

Some researchers have noted that women may simply be diagnosed more often because they\u2019re more likely to seek medical help<\/a> when memory problems appear.<\/p>\n

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One limitation of the study is that it only looked at healthy people, not those who were already showing signs of dementia, Ravndal acknowledged. The participants were also generally well-educated and came from multiple study sites.<\/p>\n

Ravndal emphasized that the work isn\u2019t meant to guide individual health decisions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“The study is not about making direct recommendations for individuals \u2014 rather, it helps refine scientific understanding by showing that normal brain aging does not account for women\u2019s higher prevalence of Alzheimer\u2019s disease,” she said.<\/p>\n

The researcher added that “future work needs to identify the mechanisms that do.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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