Maintaining The Brain’s Wiring In Ageing And Disease

Researchers at the Babraham Institute near Cambridge, supported by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), have discovered that the brain’s circuitry survives longer than previously thought in diseases of ageing such as Alzheimer’s disease. The findings were published in the journal Brain. Alzheimer’s disease causes nerve cells in the brain to die, resulting in problems with memory, speech and understanding.

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