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AI may have negative implications for cognition — a warning that clinicians in particular may need to heed, according to an expert. Dementia prevalence in the United States is lower than anticipated, in part because of a “decades-long upward trend in educational attainment,” Alexander Chaitoff, MD, MPH, an assistant professor in the University of Michigan Medical
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