Alzheimer's memory problems originate with protein clumps floating in the brain, not amyloid plaques
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 11:00
in Health & Medicine
Using a new mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that Alzheimer's pathology originates in Amyloid-Beta (Abeta) oligomers in the brain, rather than the amyloid plaques previously thought by many researchers to cause the disease.