Can't Remember What I Forgot

The latest research on memory loss and the aging brain

Sue Halpern is scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College and author, most recently, of Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From The Front Lines of Memory Research. See full bio

July 9, 2008, Memory

Comments on "Another Alzheimer's drug bites the dust"

Another Alzheimer's drug bites the dust

By Sue Halpern on July 9, 2008 in Can't Remember What I Forgot

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alzheimers drug

Submitted by gemma on July 12, 2008 - 2:21am.

Well surprise surprise. Another drug that looked promising in animal studies fails in humans!! When will researchers admit that drugs developed to treat an artificially induced disease in an animal is incomparable to a naturally ocurring disease in a human.

Good point

Submitted by Sue Halpern on July 12, 2008 - 12:03pm.

It's a valid point. It's certainly possible that mice and men are just too different, so that drugs that work in mice have little chance of working in people. The problem is that so far there are few other ways to test out hypotheses. Our technology is not sophisticated enough yet to get past this.