Scientists now know Alzheimer’s attacks the brain long before people exhibit memory loss or cognitive decline. But the specifics are crucial because so far, drug after drug has failed to effectively treat Alzheimer’s in people who already show symptoms. Many scientists now think the problem may be that the drugs were given too late, when, as Dr. John C. Morris, an Alzheimer’s expert at Washington University in St. Louis, puts it, “there’s a heck of a lot of brain cell damage and we’re trying to treat a very damaged
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/health/09alzheimers.html?_r=1&ref=health
Forget Me Not Initiative
http://www.forgetmenotinitiative.org/
The Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative:
A Proposal to Accelerate the Evaluation of
Pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease Treatments (5/9/10)
http://www.bannerhealth.com/NR/rdonlyres/33B8922D-8B34-4639-B70B-BAD5CDEB92C1/46927/APIsummaryweb2.pdf
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