Untangling the mystery of Alzheimer’s

Tabitha M. Powledge summarizes the state of the science of diagnosing, preventing, and treating Alzheimer’s disease. Unfortunately, she has little to report in the way of promising news: "One reason for the laggard pace is that there is still no consensus about how Alzheimer’s develops. Researchers have long been at war over which process is more important for destroying the brain in Alzheimer’s, the tau protein tangles or beta amyloid plaque accumulation in the brain."

April 11, 2015

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