Researchers say they may have made huge progress towards an Alzheimer’s cure by finding a way to flip back on the memories in patients.
A new compound could be the first step towards creating an actual Alzheimer’s cure, researchers say. That’s because the new compound can actually “flip back on” the memory of patients affected by Alzheimer’s. As research into Alzheimer’s continues, we’re learning more about the disease. Plaque on the brain—which is responsible for the memory loss we associate with the disease—is actually not a cause of Alzheimer’s itself.
But, these medications don’t actually correct the alterations in the circuits and mechanisms of the brain. So, researchers have been looking at other methods—like gamma oscillations—instead. By focusing on boosting these high-frequency brain waves, the researchers found that they were able to make a big step towards creating an Alzheimer’s cure that can re-enable the memory of patients who have already started to see some decline within that part of their brain.
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