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Rahul Sidhu, PhD Candidate, Neuroscience, University of Sheffield

Dementia at just 24-years-old – how Britain’s youngest sufferer may help researchers understand the disease

The family's decision to donate Yarham's brain to research will help unlock secrets about frontotemporal dementia. ahmetmapush/ Shutterstock

A UK man who is thought to be Britain’s youngest dementia sufferer recently passed away from the disease at only 24 years old. Andre Yarham, from Norfolk in England, was just 22 when he was first diagnosed with dementia.

At the age of 24, most brains are still settling into adulthood. But Yarham’s brain looked decades older — resembling the brain of a 70-year-old, according to the MRI scan that helped diagnose him with the disease.

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