From the April 2020 issue of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai's Focus on Healthy Aging (FHA)
Medications to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
There is no cure for dementia, but there are drugs that can temporarily ease the symptoms for some people
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Despite reports of promising new therapies for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), there is still no cure for the condition. This has led some scientists to question the widely held belief that AD is linked to a buildup of abnormal proteins—amyloid-beta (A-beta) and tau—in the brain. A-beta forms plaques that disrupt communication between neurons (brain cells), while […]