In his lab at Dalhousie University, he compares a normal brain to one from a person who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. "You can see how shrunken that it, Alzheimer's disease is where there has been a shrinkage of the brain cells — there's loss of brain cells. When brain cells die, the brain shrinks." There is an urgency to finding a cure or at least hope for people affected by the degenerative brain disease. But that may change, due to a discovery made by researchers using specimens at the brain bank.

Source: CBC News January 31, 2018 01:04 UTC