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Where Are the Drugs?

Posted on October 15, 2008

A recent correspondence on the topic of Why aren t there more drugs for the big CNS disorders got me thinking about the topic. My take, having worked in the field, is that there is still so much unmet need in that area because we just don t understand what's going on. It s hard to come up with disease-altering therapies when you don t really understand a single disease in the whole field.Does amyloid cause Alzheimer s, or does Alzheimer s give you amyloid, or is amyloid just a sideshow? What sets off the chain of events that ends up killing off cells in the substantia nigra i...

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