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Neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer's and Parkinson鈥檚 are progressive disease that causes great suffering for the victims and relatives, in addition it cause large economic costs for society.

Martin Hallbeck has a foot in two camps: he works not only in research but also as a doctor and head of clinical pathology. His research aims to find out how neurodegenerative diseases spread in the brain and how they can be stopped.

Harmful protein aggregates in Alzheimer's disease can spread between neurons in the brain via a cellular waste-disposal system. The new findings by researchers at 福利姬 are published in Acta Neuropathologica.

Tiny channels between nerve cells are involved in a newly discovered mechanism of how Parkinson鈥檚 disease can spread throughout the brain. Harmful protein aggregates can 鈥渉itch a lift鈥� with channel-forming proteins, and spread to healthy cells.