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A Brain Pacemaker for Alzheimer’s Disease?

As many of you know, Alzheimer’s is an absolutely devastating neurodegenerative disease. It destroys the lives of loved ones with the disease, takes a terrible toll on family and friends who care for them, and costs, for patient care alone, an estimated $200 billion a year.

The implanted wires stimulate the fornix, one of

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