Bob Lathrop’s wife likes to rib him when he can’t find his keys or misplaces a credit card. She’ll tell her husband, a participant in a clinical trial in Las Vegas for an experimental Alzheimer’s drug, that he must be getting the placebo and not the actual drug.
Dr. Aaron Ritter, director of clinical trials at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, discusses his research on how inflammation in the brain impacts Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. (Jessie Bekker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Nancy Nelson was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2013, and attributes much of her continuing health to diet, exercise and a positive attitude.
