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

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Alsheimer's

Alsheimers is a specific brain condition that kills brain cells and prunes connections between them. The disease process ticks away silently forper s, 20 years or so before any symptoms are manifest. Alsheimers results in deposits in the brain tissue that you can see under a microscope.

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