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Recap: Why has finding a cure been so hard, and can music help?

It’s yet another packed house at our education conference today in Petaluma, Calif. The morning started with The Pathological Course of Alzheimer’s Disease: Why Finding a Cure Has Been So Hard by Owen Carmichael, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Neurology at the University of California, Davis.

“Imagine you are a farmer and you leave the stable doors open,” he said. “What happens next?”

  • The horses get out and start running around.
  • They trample your crops
  • They scare your chickens – which stop laying eggs
  • They scare your cows – which stop providing milk
  •  They eat all the flowers you are growing for sale
  • You can no longer sell wheat, eggs, milk or flowers
  •   Your farm income goes down
  • You fail to pay the mortgage and the bank forecloses Continue reading “Recap: Why has finding a cure been so hard, and can music help?” »

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