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General Category => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: zorgon on December 08, 2015, 10:38:09 AM

Title: New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function
Post by: zorgon on December 08, 2015, 10:38:09 AM
New Alzheimer's treatment fully restores memory function

(http://www.sciencealert.com/images/articles/processed/brain-tangles_1024.jpg)

QuoteOf the mice that received the treatment, 75 percent got their memory function back.

Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques - structures that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzheimer's patients.

If a person has Alzheimer's disease, it's usually the result of a build-up of two types of lesions - amyloid plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles. Amyloid plaques sit between the neurons and end up as dense clusters of beta-amyloid molecules, a sticky type of protein that clumps together and forms plaques.

http://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function
Title: Re: New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function
Post by: zorgon on December 08, 2015, 10:40:10 AM
Posting for further research

Scanning ultrasound removes amyloid-? and restores memory in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/278/278ra33

Potential New Alzheimer's Treatment Fully Restores Memory -- At Least In Mice
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/24/alzheimers_n_6924974.html

Research Shows New Alzheimer's Treatment Fully Restores Memory Function
http://futurism.com/research-shows-new-alzheimers-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function/