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Melting Away Alzheimer’s: How Dopamine Dissolves Harmful Brain Plaques


Japanese researchers have discovered that dopamine treatment could alleviate Alzheimer’s symptoms by promoting the production of neprilysin, an enzyme that breaks down harmful brain plaques. This breakthrough in mice models offers potential for a new treatment approach if replicated in human tria

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