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Draining
Brain Toxins May Slow Alzheimer's
(HealthDayNews, 8/24/04)
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine used special shunts to drain the cerebral spinal
fluid of eight Alzheimer’s patients. Over the course of a
year, isoprostanes, toxic compounds that accumulate and cause
cell death in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s, decreased
by half for these subjects and their cognitive abilities, as
measured by paper and pencil tests, remained stable. During
the same period, the test scores of patients without the shunt
fell by 20%.
(Journal of Alzheimer's Disease,
August 2004) |
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