Antibiotics can treat dementia

Scientists from the United States have found that a certain class of antibiotics could be promising for the treatment of frontotemporal dementia.

Frontotemporal dementia occurs between the ages of 40 and 65. Frontotemporal dementia causes speech difficulties, behavioral changes and memory impairment. A group of patients with frontotemporal dementia has a specific genetic mutation that allows brain cells to release a protein (progranulin).
Aminoglycosides are a group of natural and semi-synthetic antibiotics. Scientists from the Medicine College of Kentucky University have found that after adding some aminoglycosides to mutated nerve cells, neurons began to produce full-fledged progranulin.

SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY