In The News: Department of Brain Health
This year has been a major year in the field of Alzheimer disease (AD), with several promising therapies moving forward and the first FDA approval in almost 2 decades.

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The director of the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas discussed new data that highlights wasted expenditures from Alzheimer trials and the importance of understanding their impacts.
Pharmacological studies have attempted and failed for past decades to generate medicines that might halt the course of the illness. Now, experts claim to have reached a tipping point in Alzheimer's development.
The cause of Alzheimer’s was supposedly simple.
Alzheimer’s treatments seemed unlikely just a few months ago.
A week ago, Brigham and Women's Hospital announced it would spearhead the first human trial of a nasal spray vaccine as a protection against Alzheimer's disease, formulated to prevent or delay the progression of the disease.
Last week, Brigham and Women's Hospital announced that it would pioneer a trial using a spray drug for Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's treatments were not considered likely just months ago.
Alzheimer's treatments seemed like an unlikely prospect just months ago.

A recently approved medication for Alzheimer’s disease is making headlines because of its price tag. It costs $56,000 a year.
Despite projections implying that the clinical use of aducanumab (Aduhelm; Biogen), the first drug approved for the treatment of Alzheimer disease (AD), would be widespread by this point, financial reports have indicated that the clinical use of the therapy is far below expectations.