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Scott Small: The Point of Forgetting

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Is the Amaloid Plax the Fire?

For the longest time, people thought that amaloid places, these gummy protein aggregates in our brains, is the fire. Now there's a growing awareness that that might be wrong,. That amaloid plax might be the smoke, not the fire. And that's important for therapeutics because i think it's sort of intuitive that if you want to really intervene and cure, it's better to go after the fire... You don't want putout the smoke. You want to put out the fire.

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