Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease
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Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease
#2Text only version https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=621908340
Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease
#3> They also found that these Alzheimer's risk genes seem to make a person's brain more vulnerable to infection with the two herpes viruses.
If that is the case, people predisposed for Alzheimer will naturally have more herpes virus in the brain - does not seem like viruses are anywhere near the root cause of Alzheimer's.
Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease
#4Text only version https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=621908340
Oh, my god. Is there a browser extension or a third party website or anything out there that does this for all websites? I haven't had much luck, but that's partially because some sites have chosen to make themselves unusable without javascript enabled.
NPR, thank you for this subdomain <3
Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease
#5> They also found that these Alzheimer's risk genes seem to make a person's brain more vulnerable to infection with the two herpes viruses. If that is the case, people predisposed for Alzheimer will naturally have more herpes virus in the brain - does not seem like viruses are anywhere near the root cause of Alzheimer's.
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Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease
#6Text only version https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=621908340
Oh, my god. Is there a browser extension or a third party website or anything out there that does this for all websites? I haven't had much luck, but that's partially because some sites have chosen to make themselves unusable without javascript enabled. NPR, thank you for this subdomain <3
"Reader Mode" is built into Firefox. (Dunno about chrome, I don't use that)
There is also https://outline.com
Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease
#7This reminds me of a line from one of Eddie Murphy's comedy routines back in the 80s: "Herpes is like luggage; you keep that s--t forever."
Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease
#8Text only version https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=621908340
Oh, my god. Is there a browser extension or a third party website or anything out there that does this for all websites? I haven't had much luck, but that's partially because some sites have chosen to make themselves unusable without javascript enabled. NPR, thank you for this subdomain <3
If Firefox does not offer the reader mode button/icon for a page, you can still use it using this:
about:reader?url=
Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease
#9This is not surprising. At least one study [1] showed 85% of people's brains are PCR-positive for at least HHV-6. It is also important to keep in mind that herpesviruses have evolved with us (and many other species) and in some ways are considered part of our normal flora. They may also play an important role in the proper development of our immune system.
The data in this paper is suggestive (and complicated!!), but there is no convincing mechanism for the virus having anything to do with the development of Alzheimers. The real virology here will be very hard.
Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease
#10People with Alzheimer's seem to have more things in their brain that shouldn't be there than normal. Past findings include types of immune cells that shouldn't be there, various yeast, other types of virus etc. It's not clear if all those are there due to the blood-brain barrier loosing structural integrity, or those cause Alzheimer's in the first place.