Compounds May Help Combat Brain Diseases

Friday, November 7, 2008 - 14:14 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and Southern Methodist University (SMU) have identified a group of chemical compounds that slows the degeneration of neurons, a condition that causes such common diseases of old age as Alzheimer`s, Parkinson`s and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

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