Study Shows Alzheimer's Disease Can Be Reversed for Full Neurological Recovery in Animal Models
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A research team from Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center has demonstrated that Alzheimer's disease can be reversed and full neurological recovery achieved in animal models, challenging the century-old belief that AD is irreversible. The study shows that brains already afflicted with advanced Alzheimer's pathology can recover, representing a paradigm shift from prevention-focused research to potential reversal and recovery approaches.
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A research team from Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals (UH) and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center has now challenged this long-held dogma in the field, testing whether brains already badly afflicted with advanced AD could recover.
Despite billions of dollars spent on decades of research, there has never been a clinical trial of any drug to reverse and recover from AD.
Consequently, research has focused on preventing or slowing it, rather than recovery.
For more than a century, people have considered Alzheimer's disease (AD) an irreversible illness. Consequently, research has focused on preventing or ...
