Dementia: Catching the memory thief
Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 04:31
in Health & Medicine
It's over a hundred years since the first case of Alzheimer's disease was diagnosed. Since then we've learned a great deal about the protein 'tangles' and 'plaques' that cause the disease. How close are we to having effective treatments -- and could we even prevent dementia from occurring in the first place?