Brain Energy Improvement as an Emerging Approach for Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment

Alzheimer’s disease(AD),the most common type of dementia,is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder that seriously afflicts millions of patients and their families due to the lack of effective therapeutic drugs and methods.Elucidating the pathogenesis of this disease has always been a great challenge because AD is complicated with multiple pathophysiological features,including neurodegeneration characterized by progressive synaptic/neuronal loss leading to brain atrophy,brain Aβ deposition forming plaques,Tau hyperphosphorylation constituting neurofibrillary tangles,glial activation and neuroinflammation,and glucose hypometabolism.