Tracking down the cause of memory loss in Alzheimer’s

Tracking down the cause of memory loss
Computer image of tissue from the brain of an Alzheimer’s patient: a clump of protein plaques (yellow) leads to the deterioration of nerve cells (grey) that are then destroyed by cleaning cells (purple). Credit: Leiden University

Memory loss and confusion are signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Physicists Serge Rombouts and Martina Huber have developed new methods to help medical science get to the bottom of this insidious disease.

It wasn’t planned, but Alzheimer’s disease has become a recurrent theme in the career of physicist Serge Rombouts, Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at the LUMC and the University’s Institute of Psychology. He received a Ph.D. in 1999 for a technique using an MRI scanner to…

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