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What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt 2)

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The Amyloid Hypothesis and Alzheimer's Disease

Small notes that while the drug trials were floundering, new scientific findings were poking holes in the fundamental hypothesis as well. The failures lend more significance to an anatomical mismatch that Alloys Alzheimer noted more than 100 years ago. Decades can pass between the first appearance of amyloid and tau deposits and the neural death and cognitive decline seen in the disease.

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