Scientists from QBI and the School of Biomedical Sciences are now initiating a clinical study of patients with sleep apnoea to determine whether treatment lowers the risk of developing dementia.
Finding a cure for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s is challenging. They’re difficult to diagnose, and drugs struggle to get into the brain as the brain’s blood supply is largely separate to the rest of the body.
Kate Swaffer, 2017 Australian Of The Year in SA, and co-founder, Chair and CEO of the Dementia Alliance International lives with younger-onset dementia.
