Alzheimer's Pill?

Ecurb Noselrub · December 21, 2011, 03:54:32 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/super-memory-pill-possibly-alzheimer-cure-could-around-162010613.html

Pharaoh Cat · December 21, 2011, 09:02:23 AM

Shared immediately on Facebook. Exciting!

OldGit · December 21, 2011, 10:07:41 AM

Too late for me ... err, what did I come in here for? Nggg .... swallows false teeth yet again.

Squid · December 21, 2011, 12:57:16 PM

Interesting. I'll see if I can snag the journal article later this evening after work.

DeterminedJuliet · December 21, 2011, 03:51:54 PM

Alzheimer's runs in my family, so I have a very real concern about possibly getting it some day. One of my greatest fears is losing my mental facilities. I don't want to get my hopes up, but it would be amazing if this break through turns out to be as useful as it sounds like it could be.

Davin · December 21, 2011, 04:29:07 PM

Isn't that the cause for the rise of the planet of the apes?

xSilverPhinx · December 21, 2011, 05:13:37 PM

Quote from: Davin on December 21, 2011, 04:29:07 PM
Isn't that the cause for the rise of the planet of the apes?

And Deep Blue Sea but with sharks instead of apes (terrible movie, btw)

Seems like science can offer quite a scare.

Like DeterminedJuliet, I also hope they figure this one out, because Alzheimer's runs in both sides of my family.

The Magic Pudding · December 22, 2011, 02:08:53 AM

Alzheimer's Pill?

Ah yes, I'll take a box, thank you.

Sgtmackenzie · December 23, 2011, 01:58:58 AM

All Alzheimers is - is a degradation of memory. Replace that memory (in a human) as if it was RAM (in a computer or microchip) and viola. Magical pill.....

Squid · December 23, 2011, 04:28:44 AM

Here's the article for anyone interested in reading it:

http://www.mediafire.com/?9ku24cqima1scy4

Davin · December 23, 2011, 02:22:49 PM

Quote from: Squid on December 23, 2011, 04:28:44 AM
Here's the article for anyone interested in reading it:

http://www.mediafire.com/?9ku24cqima1scy4

Yes, thank you, I was too lazy to look myself.

Tank · December 23, 2011, 03:26:29 PM

I'm sure I've read this thread before. $:-\$

pytheas · January 20, 2012, 07:04:59 PM

I wouldn't be suprised by susceptibility to a new range of infections as a side effect

Also not very convinced it would actually work in alzheimer's fibrillary tangles and plaques, the human conditions with PKR downregulation are huntingtons and parkinsons.

The world of the mouse may be another ballgame in this CNS respect. They are against great odds. (Not so, with immunology between mouse and man, and the PKR knock out mice were in a sterile lab envoronment, not sniffing and licking the virally loaded streets of our communities

btw I helped care for my mum who melted away within 3 years in front of us.
I tried all the meds, curcumin, antioxidants, constant memory games and quizzes

help? did they fuck...

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