The suspected causes of Alzheimer’s disease are diverse, and its cures are, today, nonexistent.

What’s all but certain is that many who today have the mental chops to wade through a detailed article about the disorder’s drivers and demographics will nevertheless succumb to it someday.

With no cure available, despite numerous attempts to find one, researchers are looking down new roads for treatments. A recent discovery by Stanford Medicine neurologist Mike Greicius, MD, may help clear one of those roads for faster passage.