Researchers Locate “Master Switch” for Memory Recall
Those suffering from Alzheimer’s, or dealing with the fact that it runs genetically in their family, may be seeing an effective drug on the market within the next ten years, now that scientists have located a part of the brain in mice that triggers memory recall.
Although this particular drug, Vorinostat, was tested on mice, it is believed that humans have the same switch in their brains that can help prevent memory loss, and in fact, turn back the time and bring memories back to those who have lost certain memories of their past.
A drug that focuses on this “master switch” will need to be tested, but researchers are hoping that this is the beginning of a huge development in preventing—or possibly reversing—Alzheimer’s disease, and may be the end-all, be-all of AD and its future.