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Over 20,000 people join search for new dementia treatments

14 May 2024

More than 20,000 volunteers have been recruited to a resource aimed at speeding up the development of much-needed dementia drugs. The cohort will enable scientists in universities and industry to involve healthy individuals who may be at increased risk of dementia in clinical trials to test whether new drugs can slow the decline in various brain functions including memory and delay the onset of dementia.

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HIV drug helps protect against build-up of dementia-related proteins in mouse brains

26 April 2023

¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ scientists have shown how the brain’s ability to clear out toxic proteins is impaired in Huntington’s disease and other forms of dementia – and how, in a study in mice, a repurposed HIV drug was able to restore this function, helping prevent this dangerous build-up and slowing progression of the disease.

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