Alzheimer’s Disease Research Shows Sticky Brain Coating

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Alzheimer’s patients’ brains gets all the notoriety, but another culprit is gaining renewed attention: Protein tangles that clog brain cells and just might determine how fast patients go downhill. Nobody knows what causes Alzheimer’s, although the disease’s hallmark plaque – that gooey stuff called beta-amyloid – is the main suspect. ... continue reading