Researcher's study method for memory recovery for Alzheimer's patients

The video discusses a study published in the journal Brain, which links memory loss in Alzheimer's to epigenics, specifically repressive histone modification. Scientists from the University at Buffalo studied mouse models and post-mortem brain tissues, discovering that abnormal histone modifications reduce glutamate receptors, leading to synaptic dysfunction and memory deficiency. The study involved treating animals with compounds to inhibit the histone modifier, resulting in recovered glutamate receptor expression and function in the frontal cortex, with improvements lasting a week.

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