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Unfortunate that we have thrown billions upon billions and not a single viable treatment has made it out the pipeline. Truly one of the diseases that has escape

• DenisM 6y ago
  Age-related mental disorders are the final frontier for the human species. Heart problems are basically mechanical problems, we're guaranteed to fix them in the next 100 years, if only by printing new hearts and blood vessels. Cancer is a cluster of rogue cells, and just it's a matter of time before we can focus poisons, blades, irradiation, and nano-bots precisely enough before treatment becomes as routine as annual dentist visit. Similarly bacterial infection - it's just a foreign object that needs to be killed with some precision. Viruses are trickier but maybe not that much - killing infected cells seem like it would do the job. Brains are complicated though, you can't just seek and destroy something that's wrong. It's not a given that we can fix them in the near future, and as all other diseases recede we will end up with close to 100% of people succumbing to brain disorders at the end of their lives.