A major cause of age-related memory loss identified: Potentially reversible
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have found that the deficiency of a protein called RbAp48 in the hippocampus is a significant contributor to age-related memory loss and that this form of memory loss is reversible. The study, conducted in postmortem human brain cells and in mice, also offers the strongest causal evidence that age-related memory loss and Alzheimer's disease are distinct conditions.