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Senior Hrishikesh Srinagesh earns award from Intel for research on therapeutic developments for multiple sclerosis
by Emilie Doolittle
Palo Alto Online Staff
When Palo Alto High School senior Hrishikesh Srinagesh volunteered at Lytton Gardens Senior Communities he worked with a woman named Alice who was talkative and "fun to be around." But every week he would come back to see her and she couldn't remember him.
"It was difficult for me," Srinagesh said. "It seemed unfathomable that plaque buildups, tangled neurons, and misfolded proteins could cause this kind of degeneration in her brain, turning my friend into a stranger with Alzheimer's disease."
.Uploaded: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 1:47 PM
Senior Hrishikesh Srinagesh earns award from Intel for research on therapeutic developments for multiple sclerosis
by Emilie Doolittle
Palo Alto Online Staff
When Palo Alto High School senior Hrishikesh Srinagesh volunteered at Lytton Gardens Senior Communities he worked with a woman named Alice who was talkative and "fun to be around." But every week he would come back to see her and she couldn't remember him.
"It was difficult for me," Srinagesh said. "It seemed unfathomable that plaque buildups, tangled neurons, and misfolded proteins could cause this kind of degeneration in her brain, turning my friend into a stranger with Alzheimer's disease."
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1 comments:
Wouldn't it be wonderful to finally have a cure and not just a stop gap measure to inhibit further disability. Maybe it will take a high school student unsullied by the almighty dollar to take us down that road. Good luck and God bless.
Lee
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