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I think all of us longs have been waiting for some word on the longitudinal effect of A2-73 in AD patients.

For Ms Stevens to have been diagnosed with AD 3 years ago and go thru 28 months of decline, and then regain the ability to play the piano after 8 months on A2-73 is awesome! REVERSAL!!!

After 55 years of playing the piano, Ms Stevens lost the ability to play three years ago, and was soon after diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
Pauline Stevens, 78, has regained the ability to play the piano after taking a revolutionary new drug for Alzheimer's. Picture: David Caird.

Eight months ago she began having a daily pill of Anavex and it is now impossible to wipe the smile from her face as she jokes and plays the piano for her family. “I feel as though I can go and do things now that I couldn’t do. I am happy,” Ms Stevens, 78, said.

“I love playing, I love to sit down and play like I used to.”

Wiping away tears of joy as he listens, husband Tom Stevens said the turnaround has been remarkable.

“Pauline laughs at my jokes again. I have her back,” he said.

“We are at the beginning, but there is hope now where there wasn’t.”

We don't know the time frame details for Ms Lynch, but, we do know that she has been dosed with A2-73 for at least 6 months. REVERSAL!!!

Ms Lynch, 76, has not only picked up her paintbrushes again, but is preparing for an exhibition spanning the last 50 years of her work despite being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in November 2014.

“People used to say that I had forgotten things or that I had already told them something, and I just said I had a lot to remember and couldn’t ­remember everything,” Ms Lynch said.

“Everything is better around me. I feel quite well.”

Ms Lynch’s carer Keith Everitt can recall her “going downhill fast” as she stopped painting and had difficulty around her home before joining the trial.

“It has improved her out of all sight. She is laughing and bubbly, she has absolutely blossomed since she has been on these tablets,” he said. “Nobody can believe the difference in Valerie before the trials and now. It is a different person.”