The findings have the potential to shift the view of Alzheimer’s as a disease that destroys memories to a disease that disrupts the brain’s ability to recall memories.
“We can use social experience as a probe for what might be relevant to the social symptoms in ASD at a molecular level,” says Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele.
In the process of researching equine therapy, Dr. Prudence Fisher learned things about horses that make them particularly good for working with PTSD sufferers.