SST, originally identified as a factor that inhibits the secretion of pituitary growth hormone (Brazeau et al., 1973), is not a neophyte in the field of AD; a PubMed query conducted with the search terms ‘somatostatin’ and ‘Alzheimer’ returns more than 300 entries, including 60 review articles (e.g., (Epelbaum et al., 2009; Burgos-Ramos et al., 2008). This evidence concerns the gene SST and Alzheimer disease.