• Question: have you ever been able to find a medicine that is close to curing dementia?

    Asked by anon-188136 to Nadine on 2 Nov 2018.
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      Nadine Mirza answered on 2 Nov 2018:

      Super intriguing question there!

      Unfortunately, there just isn’t a medicine for curing dementia right now. The closest scientists have gotten are medicines that can slow down the symptoms so a person doesn’t get worse too fast (like losing memory or being unable to complete tasks).This has actually been a pretty big step and has helped a lot of people! A part of what I do is to make sure people get diagnosed with dementia as early as possible so they can get this medicine as early as possible.

      Some of the scientists I know at uni and many across the country have now succeeded at figuring out which exact parts of the brain are being damaged by dementia and how this is happening- right down to seeing what’s happening in the nerve cells of our brain. This is going to be the first step to making a cure because now scientists know exactly which parts of the cells to target and how.

      Just for extra help try giving this link a read too if you want!

      What is dementia?

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