Dr Lesley Cheng"I think that there will be a cure. It's about treating the patients at the right time. I believe there is a cure out there right no; it's right under our noses but we are treating patients at the wrong time. We need to treat them earlier, and this comes back to needing to be able to diagnose the patients a lot earlier. So if we can do that I think the whole care for patients can improve. We can diagnose earlier, or treat earlier and then the cure comes in and it may not completely erase the disease, but it might give people a better, longer life and get rid of the terrible symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease."
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Professor Simon Crowe"I think we'll understand more about them. We are obviously spending a lot of money and time into them and that's exciting because the better we understand them the more likely we are to be able to do something about them. So I think hopefully we will come to an understanding of what Alzheimer's is and I think Alzheimer's is the most important one although Parkinson's is also very exciting and significant too but fewer people are suffering from this. So I think that if we understand how the disease takes place and intervene earlier then be able to change the trajectory of the progression of the disease then that would be a great step forward."
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Dr Ross O'Shea"I'm hopeful, but I don't think we've quite had that breakthrough that's going to make it all possible. There's a lot of people who have been doing lots of work on this for, you know, decades, and they've got no where with a single treatment for any Neurodegenerative Diseases apart from treating symptoms. I think we just need that breakthrough, you know, that one thing that could allow us to either stop things from getting worse or repair the damages, but what that going to be? Who knows? But I'm hopeful, you know, I just hope. I'm doing my best, I think."
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