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Professor Louise Serpell - Alzheimer's Disease Takes a Lifetime
Professor Louise Serpell, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website.
In this blog, Louise reflects on why Alzheimer’s disease has proved so difficult to understand, despite more than a century of research. She traces the role of amyloid beta, tau, inflammation, synaptic loss, genetics, ageing, the microbiome and other factors, while also asking what research models can and cannot capture. The blog argues that Alzheimer’s is shaped across a lifetime, by biology, environment, experience and individual variation, making collaboration across research fields essential for…
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