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SHIELD: A simple, memorable model to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease and dementia

SHIELD: A simple, memorable model to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease and dementia

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is on track to become one of the defining public health challenges of our time. Every three seconds, somewhere in the...

17.09.2025 4

The Conversation

Donald Weaver

Should AD stand for Alzheimer’s disease, or for Auguste Deter, the patient whose case was first described?

Dementia patient Auguste Deter’s contribution to the 1907 single case report study by Alois Alzheimer was immense: Deter’s life, illness and death...

15.05.2025 3

The Conversation

Donald Weaver

Curing Alzheimer’s disease: Magic bullet or magic shotgun blast?

Rather than seeking a single cure — a magic bullet — for Alzheimer’s disease, a shotgun blast of different drugs with different targets may be a...

09.03.2025 10

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Donald Weaver