One of the things we see in degenerative diseases of the brain is the idea of inflammation or the immune system being involved in cell death.
Now we haven’t untangled all of those causes – what’s exactly going on with them. But we do know there are ways to modulate the immune system in the brain and there are ways to damp down the inflammation. And these are very active areas of research, looking at pharmacological approaches that might help across a number areas of the diseases of the brain on this website.
