Why Old Dogs Might Be Able To Teach Alzheimers Researchers New Tricks 1285678
Most people know someone with Alzheimer’s disease. When I was growing up, my grandmother struggled with dementia, and I saw firsthand how difficult that was for our family. That experience was one reason I became a neurotoxicologist who studies how misshapen proteins and inflammation in the brain can increase over time and cause dementia. While there are ways to treat the symptoms of dementia, researchers are still in search of a cure. Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia are difficult to study, in part because diagnosing the disease early in people is challenging. These diseases typically begin developing two decades prior to most symptoms that would prompt someone to see a clinician. As a result, most researchers use mouse models to test potential therapies for Alzheimer’s. The post Why Old Dogs Might Be Able to Teach Alzheimer’s Researchers New Tricks appeared first on Naut
