New clues to stroke role in Alzheimer’s
Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital reported last week on a new study linking stroke and traumatic brain injuries to Alzheimer’s disease. The new study shows that when a stroke or TBI is suffered, there is an increase in the formation of brain-clogging plaques. The researchers also discovered that particular enzymes produced during brain injury, called caspases, also enables the BACE enzymes to linger in brain cells, causing Alzheimer’s Disease.
Researchers found the formation of the brain-clogging plaques and enzymes even more apparent in older patients in the study. Finally, the researchers state that accumulative injuries to the brain over a lifetime would severely increase risk for Alzheimer’s Disease.
You can read more on the researcher’s study here.