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  "id": 179596,
  "title": "MRI metric identifies early, multifactorial white matter damage in Alzheimer's disease",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/mri-metric-identifies-early-multifactorial-white-matter-damage-in",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-05T13:40:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
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    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-mri-metric-early-multifactorial-white.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Alzheimer's disease has traditionally been studied as a condition that primarily affects the brain's gray matter, where neuronal cell bodies are located and some of the disease's most characteristic lesions accumulate. However, growing evidence indicates that white matter is also affected during the early stages of the neurodegenerative process.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Phys.org",
        "title": "Atomic view of Alzheimer's disease peptide could inform new drugs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/atomic-view-of-alzheimers-disease-peptide-could-inform-new-drugs",
        "published": "2026-08-06T16:00:03.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "bioRxiv",
        "title": "Mechanisms of resilience to autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease via oligogenic modulation of rare variants in the entorhinal cortex",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/mechanisms-of-resilience-to-autosomal-dominant-alzheimers-disease-via",
        "published": "2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}