WVU expands pioneering Alzheimer’s treatment to wider region of the brain

WVU expands pioneering Alzheimer's treatment to wider region of the brain
Doctors with the WVU RNI monitor a clinical trial in action on Nanette Miller, a 54-year-old Alzheimer’s patient. Credit: Greg Ellis/West Virginia University

A hospital nurse for 33 years, Nanette Miller would call her husband Frank at the end of each shift to let him know she was coming home. On Dec. 7, 2018, the phone call came with a somber declaration: “I can’t do this anymore.”

Miller had to help on another hospital floor that day. She didn’t know how to get back.

Several months later, she was diagnosed with what she and her husband had feared —early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

But now, not even a year removed from her official diagnosis, Miller is already…

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