Study shows how mutations that cause Alzheimer’s disease lead to neurodegeneration and dementia

BOSTON: A study from researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) reveals for the first time exactly how mutations associated with the most common form of inherited Alzheimer’s disease produce the disorder’s devastating effects.

The paper upends conventional thinking about the effects of Alzheimer’s-associated mutations in the presenilin genes and provides an explanation for the failure of drugs designed to block presenilin activity…

Full story covered in the Dementia Business Weekly.

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