Rethinking Alzheimer's disease and its treatment targets
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 16:14
in Health & Medicine
The standard explanation for what causes Alzheimer's is known as the amyloid hypothesis, which posits that the disease results from of an accumulation of the peptide amyloid beta, the toxic protein fragments that deposit in the brain and become the sticky plaques that have defined Alzheimer's for more than 100 years.