We must make the most of Alzheimer’s disease research – Professor Alistair Burns and Professor Martin Rossor

We must make the most of Alzheimer’s disease research – Professor Alistair Burns and Professor Martin Rossor We recently wrote about the challenge for dementia clinical services if immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s disease proves to be successful.

It is important to plan for the future but there is some thinking and planning to be done before we arrive there.

The focus of research has shifted significantly away from established and moderately severe Alzheimer’s disease to the much earlier stages of the illness and in some cases when symptoms are very mild or even absent. People have called this “Prodromal” Alzheimer’s disease or “Asymptomatic” Alzheimer’s disease. NHS England