Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Alzheimer's Could Be a Third Form of Diabetes

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 02, @05:16AM
from the i-forget-why dept.
Atzanteol writes
"Insulin, it turns out, may be as important for the mind as it is for the body. Research in the last few years has raised the possibility that Alzheimer's memory loss could be due to a novel third form of diabetes. Scientists at Northwestern University have discovered why brain insulin signaling — crucial for memory formation — would stop working in Alzheimer's disease."

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