Study reveals a surprising cause of cognitive decline—and the key to reversing it

Researchers pinpoint a lone protein that speeds up the dysfunction of an aging brain. Eliminating it, they claim, can reverse the damage. But there are big hurdles before a treatment is approved.

An aging brain’s sad, slow decline may not be as inevitable as everyone thinks.A new scientific study from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has come to the startling conclusion that a single protein is the catalyst for cognitive dysfunction—and the damage it causes can be reversed.

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