What if we could stop Alzheimer's before it ever starts?

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Doctors are starting to ask the provocative question: what if new Alzheimer's drugs make better preventive treatments?

Growing up in Guayama, a town nicknamed "witch city" in Puerto Rico, Maritza Ciliberto heard the rumors that her family was cursed. She didn't believe in curses, rejecting the idea that anyone could ever deserve to get sick, but she did believe there was something lurking in her relatives' brains — a "sleeping, giant monster" waiting to emerge. First, it came for her grandmother, who struggled with daily chores. Then her mother, who began repeating the same questions over and over. Eventually, her mother, two of her aunts, and one uncle died from a rare and inherited form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease due to a genetic mutation. Ciliberto knew she could be next.

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