Dr. Sam Gandy: “Protein May Hold the Key to Who Gets Alzheimer’s”
The memory and thinking problems of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, which affect an estimated seven million Americans, may be related to a failure in the brain’s stress response system, new research suggests. “My ambivalence is, is this really a way that advances our understanding of the disease or does this just tell us this is even more complicated than we thought?” said Sam Gandy, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, and Associate Director of the Mount Sinai Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Learn more
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