For decades, dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease, was treated as untouchable. Families watched loved ones fade, doctors could offer only reassurance and coping strategies, and research seemed to ...
The dementia drug memantine showed promise for improving social functioning in a small trial of youth with autism. Nine of 16 children and adolescents treated with memantine met the response criteria ...
That began to shift in the 1990s, when scientists identified the chemical imbalances in Alzheimer’s brains: lower levels of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter tied to memory, and glutamate ...
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