Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171113:08:50:00
Are today. so, yes, i believe there is a solution. >> reporter: deep inside the brain, billions of cells work to create memories by sending messages through a neural highway. electrical signals passing through junctions called synapses where chemicals call neurotransmitters leap across the gap, carrying the message to more and more neurons. but in alzheimer's, these pathways become blocked by unusual proteins called amyloid and tao that clump and tangle, affecting memory, personality, and eventually basic functions of the brain. >> people look at the immune system of the brain, the idea that y...