Alzheimer's disease appears to spread in a predictable pattern, infecting brain cell after brain cell as the disease spreads along linked circuits known as synapses, according to a new study
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THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) — Alzheimer's disease appears to spread through the brain, traveling from neuron to neuron in much the same way that an infection or cancer moves through the body, new research with mice suggests.
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Alzheimer’s appears to spread through the brain like poison in a river, according to a study that's the first to track the destruction caused by an abnormal protein implicated in the disease.
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The first changes in the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s disease can be observed as much as ten years in advance – ten years before the person in question has become so ill that he or she can be diagnosed with the disease.
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MONDAY, Jan. 2 (HealthDay News) — Searching for a better screen for early Alzheimer’s disease, researchers think they have found a marker of change in the brain that precedes the onset of the disease by five to 10 years.
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