A team of researchers led by Yale-NUS College has found evidence that metabolic dysfunction is a primary cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common neurodegenerative disease affecting the elderly worldwide, as well as one of the most common causes of dementia. In Singapore, one in 10 people aged 60 or above is believed to suffer from dementia. After more than twenty years of research effort worldwide, scientists are still unable to identify the exact causes of Alzheimer’s and no proven treatment is available. Two competing theories are currently proposed to explain the cause of Alzheimer’s: the first is focused on the accumulation of a specific
