The Alzheimer’s Puzzle

The diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease may no longer signal a hopeless, heartbreaking journey into darkness for patients and their families, marked by a relentless loss of memory, identity, function and, ultimately, life. Today, in part because of key research and unprecedented collaboration done in Arizona, there is reason for hope that significant progress can be made against the devastation that is Alzheimer’s.

One of the turning points in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease can be traced back to a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1996.

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