Alzheimer’s Disease: In Search of New Ideas
June 25, 2020
Efforts to develop drugs to “cure” Alzheimer’s have failed, so researchers in Seattle, with major federal funding, are starting anew “to really understand what’s happening at the very basic level of individual cells in the earliest stages” of the disease, says a neuropathologist on the team. Well and good. But in Issues, a philanthropy official called on science to look beyond “molecular, genetic, and cellular” details and focus on “the complexity of the aging brain in its biosocial context, a context that demands that the brain be understood as an evolving, complex, adaptive network.”