Alzheimer’s Series: Part III: Detection & Prevention

disease can lie dormant in the human brain for 20 years before it attacks. Once it reaches the end stage, the disorder has wreaked irreparable brain damage. Death is inevitable. This explains researchers’ rigorous attempts to prevent Alzheimer’s before it’s too late, according to Dr. Huntington Potter, vice chair of basic research at CU Anschutz Medical Campus and one of the world’s preeminent Alzheimer’s investigators. “It’s very important that Alzheimer’s research be directed in two major ways,” he says. “One is in early detection, and the other concerns successful intervention to either prevent the disease or treat it once it develops. “We think it’s going to be almost impossible to find a magic bullet cure for people with severe Alzheimer’s disease and make them better. […]