medication to treat it. but there is hope on the horizon. scientists from the u.s. and switzerland conducted a year long study treating patients with the new medication and you can imagine. the results were highly promising one of the main causes of proteins produced by the body these so-called amyloid plaques for more nerve cells and block the neurons transport systems. with the new therapy antibodies attack the planks. and destroy them. the study involved one hundred sixty five patients each received either an infusion containing the antibodies or a placebo brain scans of the patients on the medication showed a significant reduction of the protein deposits as shown here on the right the higher the dosage of added can a map and the longer the therapy lasted the greater the reduction in plaques olga