1. alzheimer's disease
... measuring the person's response to the drug, physicians may be able to diagnose the disorder. It was a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School named Huntington Potter who created the test. He used an observation about people with Down's syndrome. Potter recognized that all Down's patients, if they live long enough, will develop brain lesions identical to those detected in Alzheimer's sufferers. He came ... to discover that people with Down's syndrome are very sensitive to tropicamide, the drug used to dilate the pupil of the eye. Potter then contacted Leonard Scinto, a neuroscientist a...
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