What babies’ brains might teach us about Alzheimer’s disease.

Sarah McKay
This week, I was stopped in my tracks (well, to be honest, it stopped my scroll!) by a finding about babies’ brains and Alzheimer’s disease. It turns out, healthy newborns appear to begin life with surprisingly high levels of the same toxic protein buildup linked to Alzheimer’s, only for those levels to fall rapidly in early infancy. Maybe one clue about brain ageing might eventually come from studying the very start of life. Read more here: 👶 Did you know that healthy babies are born with the..