October 23, 2008

Fatty acids the key to Alzheimer’s

Researchers working on finding out how the debilitating disease Alzheimer’s have found a link between the levels of fatty acids in the brain and the disease.

The research team from the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and the University of California have been testing on mice with reduced levels of the acid and found that they had memory loss and behavioural changes.

With over seven hundred thousand people living with dementia in the UK alone, this research cannot have come at a better time, but it is going to be some time before any real treatment from this research is going to be available.

Nevertheless, with this research underway it promises to be an interesting if not time consuming route for the research to take.

Source [BBC]