{"id":9138,"date":"2018-01-03T08:40:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2018-01-03T08:40:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:40:05","slug":"neuroscientist-predicts-much-better-treatment-for-alzheimers-is-10-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9138","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientist Predicts &#8216;Much Better Treatment&#8217; For Alzheimer&#8217;s Is 10 Years Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Terry Gross for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>British neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli first set out to study Alzheimer&#8217;s because of his grandfather, who developed the disease when Jebelli was 12.<\/p>\n<p>In the years that followed,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/men\/thinking-man\/grandfathers-alzheimers-battle-inspired-search-cure\/\">Jebelli watched<\/a>\u00a0as his grandfather&#8217;s memory started to disappear. But Jebelli points out that although a certain amount of memory loss is a natural part of aging, what happened to his grandfather and to other Alzheimer&#8217;s patients is different.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/01\/02\/575055148\/neuroscientist-predicts-much-better-treatment-for-alzheimers-is-10-years-away?utm_campaign=KHN:%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=59753955&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9Iyk4-XZMpOr_bYCfqjsb9ZKBwCev2lIpku8iy9160Ee0v-s8vGc4oiWKfL99-BZ8XoF_PBcEIWwV8wC5FYif2jPaUuA&amp;_hsmi=59753955\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Terry Gross for NPR) British neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli first set out to study Alzheimer&#8217;s because of his grandfather, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9139,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}