A new research study suggests that daydreaming may be linked to Alzheimer’s Disease. During the clinical study, five different medical imaging techniques have been used on 764 individuals (including those who were healthy, with Alzheimers, and dementia). The team who performed the study, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Washington University in St. Louis said that default activity brain patterns over the years may augment a metabolic or activity-dependent cascade, a part of Alzheimer’s pathology.

These new findings are suppose to help scientists understand the start of events that may cause a series of events, ultimately leading to Alzheimer’s Disease. Alzheimer’s is a common type of dementia that occurs in older people, characterized by the erosion of thought, memory, and language. The scientists said that the new types of imaging methods as well as bioinformatics/statistical methods allowed them to put together a picture of Alzheimers.

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