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New Alzheimer’s Treatment Fully Restores Memory Function
Thursday, October 15, 2015 8:41
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16 October 2015
- 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.Of the mice that received the treatment, 75 percent got their memory function back.
If a person has Alzheimer’s disease, it’s usually the result of a build-up of two types of lesions. As we don’t have any kind of vaccine or preventative measure for Alzheimer’s – a disease that affects 343,000 people in Australia, and 50 million worldwide – it’s been a race to figure out how best to treat it, starting with how to clear the build-up of defective beta-amyloid and tau proteins from a patient’s brain. Now a team from the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) at the University of Queensland have come up with a pretty promising solution for removing the former.
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