Being cognitively sophisticated and also long-lived has its dark side. The distinctly human style of navigating existence, our facility for reason, memory, empathy, and imagination, depends on a vast and still unfathomed network of cells in the brain. If too many of these cells die, we become unmoored. Memory falters, personality changes, language slips, the […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/02/22/the-dark-tangle-of-alzheimers-how-not-to-study-a-disease/