German researchers have recently discovered a disease-causing protein inside the brain cells of lab rats suffering from Alzheimer’s disease (i.e., dementia). The researchers believe that this discovery may help in the early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia. Patients with the disease experience abnormal accumulation of beta amyloid in the brain, damage to brain cells and memory loss, for which there is no effective treatment. Researchers at the University of Bonn, Germany, and researchers at the University of Göttingen have also found beta amyloid inside the brain nerve cells of lab rats suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, a statement said recently. ”Surprisingly, in the two-month-old diseased lab rats, this beta amyloid protein did not accumulate outside the nerve cells, but directly inside them.” The researchers also found that the accumulation of beta amyloid outside the nerve cells gradually increased as the disease progressed further. The researchers believe that the early accumulation of beta amyloid inside brain nerve cells suggests that Alzheimer’s disease emerges before beta amyloid accumulates outside the brain’s nerve cells. This finding may help diagnose and treat the disease earlier, thus delaying its progression as much as possible.