The Globe and Mail - Dementia: Confronting the crisis, part 6

Insulin may hold key to 'diabetes of the brain.' Conventional wisdom has drawn a blank, Carolyn Abraham reports, so researchers are pursuing other ways to attack Alzheimer's. One that shows perhaps the most promise follows a trail blazed by medical science's most celebrated Canadians.

"The diabetes connection is an old story that was largely ignored," says Howard Chertkow, a cognitive neurologist at McGill University. "It was about 30 years ago that Suzanne de la Monte at Brown introduced the idea of Alzheimer's being diabetes of the brain [...] Now, it's coming back."