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Bart De Strooper

Bart De Strooper

Neuroscientist, VIB-KU Leuven; co-lead of the study

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Understanding better how the brain resists the disease will provide new avenues towards therapies to prevent neurodegeneration and dementia.

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Scientists map an immune-cell 'tipping point' that may decide who develops Alzheimer's dementia

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Leading follow-up work on microglia as a drug target

Many people carry amyloid plaques in their brains and never lose their memory. Others with similar plaques slide into dementia. A study in Nature Medicine says the difference may come down to a single switch flipped by the brain's own immune cells.

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