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Inside Florida’s largest retirement community researchers using new brain-mapping technology are trying to peel back the secrets of the brain.

The goal is to make world-changing discoveries about how the mind works that could lead to earlier detection of Alzheimer’s disease and other brain diseases. The research’s success could allow physicians to start treatments earlier than ever and perhaps delay the onset of this memory-robbing condition that haunts the older population.

As people grow older, from a health perspective, they are probably more afraid of losing their memory than the...