A successful linguistic's professor has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease, and learns to cope with the fact that it'll only get worse as time goes on. From there, we start to see the toll it takes on her, as well as her family from seeing her suffer through such a horrendous disease.

Scientists from the Salk Institute in La Jolla have published data showing that the vascular system in the brain might be the first line of defense to fail in people with Alzheimer’s disease. This idea makes a lot of sense, because the vascular system supplies the brain with nutrients and, at the same time, keeps toxic molecules out of it, so if it becomes leaky or otherwise faulty it could potentially lead to metabolic abnormalities and toxin accumulation, eventually resulting in the pathology that is seen in the Alzheimer’s brain.

The guys at Neurostrong discuss the latest developments in Alzheimer's disease research and how it is becoming increasingly apparent that what we thought we knew about the Alzheimer's brain may be completely wrong. They discuss in more detail the latest setback from pharmaceutical companies reporting a complete failure of their clinical trials. Learn more from the source at Neurostrong!