New approach to fighting Alzheimer's shows potential in clinical trial

Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 09:14 in Health & Medicine

In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, patients typically suffer a major loss of the brain connections necessary for memory and information processing. Now, a combination of nutrients that was developed at MIT has shown the potential to improve memory in Alzheimer's patients by stimulating growth of new brain connections.

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