Optics Of Alzheimer’s Disease

Friday, October 10, 2008 - 11:28 in Health & Medicine

One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is the formation of plaques made of protein aggregates in the brain tissue. There is still considerable debate among scientists as to whether these plaques are the cause of the neuronal death that occurs in Alzheimer’s or just a by-product of the disease, however.

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