Predicting Alzheimer’s disease-like memory loss before it strikes

Predicting Alzheimer's disease-like memory loss before it strikes
Emily Jones (left) and Yadong Huang (right) were part of a team to show how patterns in brain activity can predict Alzheimer’s symptoms. Credit: Lauren Bayless, Gladstone Institutes (Please note the “s” in our name).

For a person with Alzheimer’s disease, there’s no turning back the clock. By the time she begins to experience memory loss and other worrisome signs, cognitive decline has already set in. And decades of clinical trials have failed to produce treatments that could help her regain her memory.

Today, researchers at Gladstone Institutes are approaching this devastating disease from a different angle. In a new study published in Cell Reports, they demonstrate that particular patterns of brain…

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