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As someone who hasn't read much about this sort of research, I'm impressed and hopeful for the future based on the advances described here. I just watched my ma
by kough 10y ago
As someone who hasn't read much about this sort of research, I'm impressed and hopeful for the future based on the advances described here. I just watched my maternal grandparents go through the sort of horrible, prolonged, process of slow brain-death (alzheimers, parkinsons) and general neural decay before death. Heart breaking. For those who know more about this: how far out are we? Tens of years? Hundreds? What stands in the way?
- volkk 10y agoas far as i remember reading somewhere, i think one of the main problems is that we don't really know what Alzheimer's disease is. We know the symptoms and we know what the brain looks like after the disease comes (in an autopsy once the person is dead) which makes diagnosing very difficult as well. But mainly we don't really know how and why or what it is.