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The Boy with Dementia at Seven
(Source: Therapeutics Daily) - At just seven, Ben Scott is facing the kind of harrowing decline we associate with old age. He'll be lucky to live to 20. Already, his speech is slurred, and within a few years he will be unable to walk, speak or recognize those closest to him, trapped in his immobile body, unaware of anything around him.
New Mayo Clinic Computer Analysis Gives Alzheimer's Disease Severity "Score"
(Source: ICAD/Mayo Clinic) - Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an algorithm that extracts information from MRI scans and assigns a score describing Alzheimer's patients' level of brain deterioration.
Tau Is Not Cause Of Alzheimer's, It Is Effect
(Source: Anavex Life Sciences) - On the heels of reports of the failure of anti-amyloid approaches to curing Alzheimer's, a lot of publicity has been given to another approach, known as "tau" (neuro-fibrillary tangles), as a therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease.
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