Category Alzheimer’s Disease

Beyond the Plaques: Can We Protect the Brain Even When We Can’t Clear the Pathology? When we think about neurodegenerative diseases, it’s easy to focus on protein aggregates like tau tangles. But here’s the thing: these aggregates aren’t the whole story. What really determines how quickly a patient’s condition worsens isoften the brain’s inflammatory response itself. Think of it this way. Once inflammation kicks into high gear, microglia and astrocytes become chronically activated,synaptic connections start disappearing, and neurons progressively die off. This…