Brain Deterioration in Alzheimer’s Disease Despite Plaque Removal

News release from The Alzheimer’s Research Trust -18 July 2008 British researchers have shown that drug vaccination can remove amyloid plaques from the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease, but unexpectedly found this did not slow down the disease. The five-year study, funded by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust and published in the Lancet, examined 80 [...]

Alzheimer’s and Dementia Prevention a Step Closer

Scientists at the University of Southampton, funded by the UK’s leading dementia research charity, the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, are a step closer to understanding why proteins such as ‘amyloid’ clog-up the brain in Alzheimer’s disease.