When Alzheimer’s Accelerates: Mayo Clinic Probes Mysterious Rapid Decline

Mayo Clinic researchers are studying why some Alzheimer’s patients decline rapidly, aiming to find causes, biomarkers, and treatments using genomic data, protein analysis, and remote trials funded by the NIH. Most individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s Disease Related Dementias (ADRD) experience a slow, gradual decline in cognitive function over several years or even decades. [...]