Researchers have found that Alzheimer’s disease affects the brain in two distinct phases: a silent one, and a more aggressive later stage. Pictured, crane lifting the most powerful magnetic resonance tomograph in Europe. Image credit: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/picture alliance via Getty Images.
Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, affects around 7 million people in the United States alone.
It is a progressive disease that gradually affects memory, thinking and behavior, for…