Alzheimer's disease. Hope for the future.
It has been only two decades since researchers discovered that most "senile dementia" is the result of a specific disease process, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and not an inevitable consequence of aging. In these 20 years, scientists have accumulated an extraordinary body of research. Until recently, preventing or curing AD was considered, at best, a distant possibility. Today, the picture is considerably brighter.
Morrison-Bogorad
Marcelle
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morrison@nia.nih.gov
D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D035843:Biomedical Research; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States