Ask a firefighter if you can put out a blaze by only tackling the smoke, and not the flames themselves, and you can imagine their response.
Yet this is the same situation neurologists have been facing for decades when treating Alzheimer’s disease: merely being able to temporarily treat the ‘smoke’ of the disease – the symptoms.
I have been a neurologist for more than 40 years, and specialise in treating people with Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
When I lecture around the world about the ‘smoke, not fire’ challenge, people ask me about the slow pace of research to find an effective treatment.
Why,
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