A few months ago, I spoke with Dr. Pierre Terrio, a leading Alzheimer's disease researcher.

We talked about some new research on Alzheimer's and why we still don't have a cure.

That episode came out over the summer and since then, there have been some exciting

updates in the field.

Make sure to stick around and I'll tell you about those developments as well as a new

research idea at the end of the episode.

One more thing, since you might catch this episode over Thanksgiving weekend, it made

me think of some clever research published a few years ago in the journal Science.

Using geolocated mobile phone data that allowed researchers to study when different people's

phones were near each other, they found that in 2016, families with different political

leanings spent less time together over Thanksgiving.

In that election year, Americans lost almost 75 million hours of family time as a result

of these differences.

Politics aside, I hope that everyone enjoys Thanksgiving with their friends and family

and that you also enjoy today's episode, which we called, Why Don't We Have A Cure for

Alzheimer's?

In 1906, Dr. Aloy's Alzheimer spoke of a female patient with quote, an unusual disease

of the cerebral cortex.

Her symptoms included memory loss, disorientation, and hallucinations.

After she died at age 50, an autopsy revealed that her cerebral cortex was unusually thin

and contained what are now known as amyloid plaques, which previously had only been observed

in elderly people.

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