The recent study focuses on the hippocampus—the brain's primary center for memory and learning. Think of the hippocampus as a lush garden. For the first five decades of your life, this garden is tended by "resident immune cells.

There is a massive blind spot in the current landscape of neurodegenerative care, and it’s one that should keep every health-tech developer awake at night. For decades, the public and medical consciousness has viewed Alzheimer’s disease through a single, narrow lens: the loss of memory. We imagine the grandmother who forgets a name or the father who loses his keys.