First detailed timeline established for brain’s descent into Alzheimer’s
Scientists have assembled the most detailed chronology
to date of the human brain’s long, slow slide into full-blown
Alzheimer’s disease. Through an international research partnership known as
the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Network (DIAN), scientists at
Washington University and elsewhere evaluated pre-symptomatic markers of Alzheimer’s disease in subjects from
families genetically predisposed to develop the disorder.