A historian challenges a labor-history fable. Timothy Messer-Kruse doesnât remember her name, but the question she asked in his college classroom a dozen years ago changed his career â and now it may revolutionize everything historians thought they knew about a hallowed event in the imagination of the American Left.
Though the effects of the disease are similar, there are two main types. 1  Early-onset Alzheimer's. This type happens to people who are younger than age 65. 2  Late-onset Alzheimer's. This is the most common form of the disease, which happens to people age 65 and older.
There is no cure for Alzheimer's disease, which progressively damages brain areas involved in memory, judgment, language, and behavior. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of mental decline, or dementia, in older adults. The new study didn't test cannabinoids on people living with Alzheimer's disease. Instead, the researchers focused on human brain tissue samples and conducted cannabinoid experiments on rats.