International Brain Aging Expert Challenges the Existence of Alzheimer's as a 'Disease'

According to the founder of the University Memory and Aging Center at
Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical
Center, "AD cannot be biologically or clinically differentiated from normal
aging. There is no one profile of AD that is consistent from person to
person," says Dr. Whitehouse. "Alzheimer's is a heterogeneous process
because it reflects the different way people's brains age over their
lifetimes." The book claims AD represents our culture's attempt to make
sense of a natural process of brain aging that we cannot control; all the
biological hallmarks of AD are also the hallmarks of normal, albeit severe,
forms of brain aging. "The promise of a panacea for one of our most dreaded
'diseases' is a powerful cultural myth," says Whitehouse, "and one purveyed
by powerful pharmaceutical companies, advocacy organizations, and private
researchers with much profit to gain." The book points out that most
scientists in the field of AD research believe a cure is unlikely and we
need to invest our dollars more wisely by putting them toward prevention
and care rather than predominantly in a cure.

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