Unclogging blood flow to the brain could open the floodgates for Alzheimer’s treatment

Better known tell-tale signs of Alzheimer's disease, such as cognitive impairment and a build-up of abnormal proteins in the brain, are what clinicians often search for when diagnosing the disease, but other clues may reveal its presence much earlier in the piece. Among those is a reduced blood flow to the brain, and scientists from Cornell University believe they have now found an explanation for these blockages, raising new hopes for treatments that target one of the disease's potential root causes.

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Category: Medical

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• Alzheimer's Disease
• Cornell University
• Dementia
• Neuroscience

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