Saturday, December 10, 2011

The Latest Brain Discoveries for Alzheimer's

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(strong evidence for the latter theory)
Hyman's microscope is one of several new technologies that promise to revolutionize the struggle to understand and beat Alzheimer's, which now afflicts more than 5 million Americans. Worldwide, a staggering 1 percent of all economic output is spent caring for and treating people with it and other types of dementia, according to Alzheimer's Disease International, the umbrella group of Alzheimer's associations around the globe. Meanwhile, just four drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to battle the disease, and all address symptoms only, not the poorly understood causes. Over the past decade, billions of dollars have been poured into researching drug after initially-promising drug, and nearly all have been disappointing in large clinical trials.
"When you can watch the brain over time, we see now, we didn't have the details right," says Hyman, who holds out great hope that his microscope studies will help correct that. One assumption has been that the plaques themselves, accretions of a protein fragment called beta amyloid, harm the brain. Instead, it appears that the individual sticky strands that eventually form the plaques damage neurons, and that the plaques are a sign of a brain long under siege. Continue to read: health.usnews.com


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