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49. Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Introduction

More than six million people in the us. currently live with all timer disease, and that number is expected to reach 13 million by 20 50. To this day a defining feature of the disease has been the presence of abnormal plac and protein tangles in the brain. If you intervene before any significant brain changes have occurred, can you stave off the amaloid and an the other downstream effects? That's still an open question.

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