Research team standing in front of an MRI machine. (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Research team standing in front of an MRI machine.

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In a study of older adults, a research team led by, from left, Christopher Zwilling, Tanveer Talukdar and Aron Barbey found that blood markers of two saturated fatty acids, along with certain omega-6, -7 and -9 fatty acids, correlated with better scores on tests of memory and were associated with larger brain structures in the frontal, temporal, parietal and insular cortices.

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