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An Alternative Approach to Study Primary Events in Neurodegeneration Using Ex Vivo Rat Brain Slices
Published on: April 11, 2018
[From empiricism to neuroscience in Alzheimer's disease]
1Departamento de Neurología, Hospital de Cruces, Barakaldo, Vizcaya, Spain. jjzarranz@hcru.osakidetza.net
Introduction And Development:
It has been almost a hundred years since neurofibrillar degeneration in the neurones of the cerebral cortex was first described by Alois Alzheimer. This finding led to the recognition of a new disease (a presenile dementia unlike senile dementia) using the clinicopathological empirical method employed at that time. Despite Alzheimer's own opinion and the subsequent findings from many neuropathological studies, general acknowledgement of the full implications of this dichotomy has taken decades. All the cases were grouped under the eponym of Alzheimer's disease and it is now being studied with the different modern scientific methods currently available to researchers.
Conclusions:
Alzheimer's disease has given rise to an exceptional associationist movement around the world and has become one of leading social and health problems facing the human race; its research and treatment will require the involvement of national and supranational public authorities.
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