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Elizabeth Riley

Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise as a way to counter Alzheimer’s disease- and age-related memory loss

Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise as a way to counter Alzheimer’s disease- and age-related memory loss

Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin much earlier – sometime around the third decade of life. In the earliest of these changes, a tangled version of a protein called tau starts building up in a
Elizabeth Riley, Cornell University 26 Mar 2026

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