Untangling the Mysteries of Alzheimer's Disease

Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 08:03 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lary Walker, associate professor of neuroscience, discusses the most common cause of dementia -- Alzheimer's disease -- and a promising diagnostic tool to detect it. Walker also explains what happens to the brain when someone gets this disease, and why Alzheimer's is exclusive to humans.

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