For Purdue University School of Health Sciences researchers Priyanka Baloni and Purba Mandal, developing resilience to Alzheimer\u2019s disease is a bit like fixing a broken-down car. If you focus only on removing the amyloid plaques and tau tangles, which are hallmarks of Alzheimer\u2019s disease in the brain, you\u2019re merely fixing the dents in the car; it may look better, but the engine still won\u2019t run. To better address that \u201cengine problem,\u201d the researchers are looking at the mitochondria\u2019s role in building resilience to Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[620,263,1659,2649,240,381],"class_list":["post-48335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-sciences","category-research","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-priyanka-baloni","tag-purba-mandal","tag-purdue-university","tag-school-of-health-sciences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n