A recent paper published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, outlines a pulse-pressure-induced pathway of cognitive decline that sheds light on why previous treatments for dementia may have failed and proposes promising new directions for the prevention and treatment of dementia.
“Over the last couple years, a sea change in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease research has occurred. Focus has shifted from solely targeting amyloid-beta in the brain to the opinion that more fruitful progress could be made by addressing factors that compromise the blood brain barrier,” explains co-author Mark Carnegie, of The Brain Protection Company based in Australia. “Elements of the constellation…