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As UVA Tests Viability of Alzheimer's Implant, 2024 May Be a Year of Hope
December 13, 2023
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Dec. 13 -- The University of Virginia issued the following research news:

By Eric Williamson, williamson@virginia.edu

A University of Virginia professor is collaborating on a deep brain implant that may one day be the path by which doctors treat and perhaps reverse the degenerative effects of Alzheimer's disease.

Harald Sontheimer, professor and chair of neuroscience at the UVA School of Medicine, will test the device's . . .

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