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Surprise Discovery About Sugar in The Brain Could Help Fight Alzheimer's


Stores of glucose in the brain could play a much more significant role in the pathological degeneration of neurons than scientists realized, opening the way to new treatments for conditions like Alzheimer's disease.

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