What do we really know about Alzheimer’s, and what are the most promising ways to approach the disease? Pitt is building a critical mass of researchers in the search for answers.
“Help wanted.” The post-pandemic plea, now commonplace on the doors of restaurants and retail shops, could also be displayed in the homes of the estimated 6 million Americans now living with Alzheimer’s disease. That’s 6 million people who are likely to lose the ability to remember whether they had breakfast. Six million who are flummoxed by the simplest problems. Who are disoriented, anxious and may become distraught enough to lash out toward caregivers. Their diagnosis is typically made with cognitive and other neurological testing, family discussions and brain scans—well after symptoms have started and the brain changes may be, tragically, irreversible…
