Can Alzheimer’s be cured ?
Just read a good article on Scientific American about Alzheimer’s. P. Murali Doraiswamy discusses recent breakthroughs in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease and what everyone can do to postpone the onset of memory loss.
Doraiswamy, who is the head of biological psychiatry at Duke University and is a Senior Fellow at Duke’s Center for the Study of Aging sais that the two biggest Alzheimer’s misconceptions are “It’s just aging” and “It’s untreatable, so we should just leave the person alone.” . He claims that these are remnants of an outdated view that hinders families from getting the best diagnosis and best care.
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