Thematic Selection: Strategies of Current Drugs and Alternative Treatments for Neurodegenerative Diseases

It is our pleasure to organise this thematic issue: strategies of current drugs and alternative treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, and to share the varied theory and/or experience about therapy of drugs from bench to bed. Neurodegenerative diseases, all are a group of intractable disorders in CNS: the prevalence from rare to common, and the onset from younger to older, with a little difference across the human races. In 2015, TU Youyou won the Nobel Prize, as a herbal pharmacologist for her great contribution in the novel designing therapy against malaria with Artemisinin, as the active agent in that plant extract of Trditional Chinese Medicinal Herbs, reduced significantly the mortality rates for patients.