Brittany Trang<p>A possible clue in the hunt for what exactly causes Alzheimer's: It looks like Alzheimer's might be able to be transmitted.</p><p>Based on VERY rare cases of people who had, as children, received growth hormone taken from the brains of human cadavers and later developed early-onset Alzheimer's, it looks like ALZ might be related to prion diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob </p><p><a href="https://www.statnews.com/2024/01/29/first-transmitted-alzheimers-disease-cases-growth-hormone-cadavers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">statnews.com/2024/01/29/first-</span><span class="invisible">transmitted-alzheimers-disease-cases-growth-hormone-cadavers/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/alz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alz</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/AD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AD</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/alzheimers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alzheimers</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/prion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prion</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dementia</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MedMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedMastodon</span></a></p>