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Scientists say they've reversed brain aging in mice with a nasal spray

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> Behavioral testing showed that treated models performed significantly better on memory and recognition tasks. "Treated models" - it sounds like they're trying really hard to hide the fact that this was all in mice. From the paper: > Therefore, using a mouse model, this study investigated whether IN administration of hiPSC-NSC-EVs in late middle age can significantly reduce oxidative stress and curb microglia-mediat…

Ok, I've inmiced the title above. Thanks for catching this.

Love the verbification!

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I'm afraid of the result if we take someone wrapped in a comforting haze of dementia (I'm getting there) and force them into cold harsh reality. It may be as welcome a sobriety to an alcoholic. If the insurance stops paying does it become Flowers for Algernon? We have several drugs that emulate dementia in various ways and call them recreational.

Hmmm. "Comforting haze" seems dubious. My grandmother had Alzheimer's and at least from the outside it seemed like a bad LSD trip that never ended. She didn't understand what was happening and was scared.

Sample size of one and anecdotal of course, but...

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