This New Alzheimer’s Treatment Fully Restores Memory Function

Alzheimer’s is a brutal disease. If you’ve ever known anyone with it, you can attest to that. 50 million people worldwide suffer from it. The cause is a buildup of two types of lesions in the brain.

The first, amyloid plaques, are a sticky protein that develops between the neurons of the brain. This causes neurons difficulty in transmitting messages to one another, thus slowing down the entire operation.

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The second type of lesion, neurofibrillary tangles, are another thick type of protein that forms between the neurons.

Researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland think they may have stumbled upon a solution. As reported in Science Translational Medicine, the team documented some impressive results by using a type of ultrasound that restores the brain function in mice. The ultrasound beams waves into the brain and breaks up the protein lesions that cause the decrease in memory function.