It has been almost a year since the news relating to Alzheimer’s see-sawing between the good and the discouraging information was witnessed. But a new discovery made by an 84-year-old scientist has been able to throw light upon the same, steering it towards a novel direction.

While being with his dog, Alpha, Dr. Paul Greengard made a discovery that would help or slow the amount of impact of Alzheimer’s on an individual.

The scientist, in the year 2000 received Nobel Prize for his work relating to signaling in brain cells. He is still working with Rockefeller University laboratory in New York City for the whole week, also walking to-and-fro from his apartment that is blocks away along with his old Bernese mountain pet dog.

It was 25 years ago that he realized that the condition interested him, which is after his wife’s father developed it and the research that he had been doing had attracted the support of philanthropic foundation, which was only started so that he could go forward with added study process into the same topic.

The finding of the study has been published in the journal Nature, revealing a possible targeting drug that could slow or obstruct the destroying impact of the condition.