Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Researchers say they may have found the cause of Alzheimer's disease.

Links to infection  may hold the key to seeing the cause of Alzheimer's disease, according to researchers at the Stanford University Medical Center . It seems that when a molecule responsible for ramping down the immune system malfunctions in the brain cells of mice, the rodents develop symptoms of the degenerative brain

disease.

Check out the details in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

New insights into how people develop Alzheimer's, could help medical personnel stop the excessive buildup of proteins into plaques and tangles of cellular gunk that cause brain cells to die or drop their connections to other neurons.

Researchers agree,  that for now the strategy is hopeful thinking, but the results of this study, gave them an amazing starting point to move research to the next stage of treating and prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Seems worth a shot to me. What do you think?

While they do more resaerch based on the fact this new discovery that when the TGF-beta pathway is turned off, your brain becomes more susceptible to a toxic buildup of proteins, the workplace can also help out.

What improvements could your workplace introduce that will prevent infections of more workers. Seems like we need a strong starting place until the science catches up. What do you think?