Developing tools for early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's
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Health Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Advanced materials Belgium Finland Lithuania Netherlands Portugal Spaindate: 31/01/2017
Project: PROMOTING ACTIVE AGEING: FUNCTIONAL NANO...
acronym: PANA
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Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia and loss of autonomy among elderly people today, posing a huge challenge for families, medical professionals and society in general.
There is currently no effective method for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, which effectively limits the use of early therapeutic strategies to delay onset of the disease’s most adverse symptoms.