New study supports long-dismissed idea: Herpes viruses could play role in Alzheimer’s
A new analysis of hundreds of brains supports the idea that infection with herpes viruses plays a role in Alzheimer's disease.
The most detailed molecular analysis of hundreds of brains from people who died with Alzheimer’s disease lends support to an idea that has struggled for funding, been rejected by top journals, and met with ridicule from the Alzheimer’s orthodoxy: that viruses, bacteria, or fungi in the brain play a role in the devastating neurodegenerative disease.
If pathogens either initiate or accelerate Alzheimer’s, then classes of drugs that have never been considered for the disease should be in play. The new , published Thursday in Neuron, “should bring forward new therapeutic targets and enable the field to predict which drugs out there may be useful,” such as antimicrobials, said
