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What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt. 1)

The Quanta Podcast

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The Complexity of Alzheimer's Disease

The emerging new models of the disease are more complex than the amyloid explanation. Because they're still taking shape, it's not clear yet how some of them may eventually translate into therapies. But because they focus on fundamental mechanisms affecting the health of cells, what's being learned might someday pay off in new treatments for a wide variety of medical problems.

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