Humans Differ from Other Primates in the Matter of Neurodegeneration

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/11/humans-differ-from-other-primates-in-the-matter-of-neurodegeneration/

One of the many challenges facing researchers attempting to understand and treat neurodegenerative conditions is that the human brain ages quite differently in comparison to the brains of our nearest neighbor species, the non-human primates. Alzheimer’s disease is almost uniquely a human phenomenon, for example, with only limited evidence for Alzheimer’s-like mechanisms in other primates. If branching out beyond a focus on Alzheimer’s, one can find many aspects of brain aging in humans that are absent or notably different in other primates.

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