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Alzheimer's Might Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] illiterate_coder@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

So it's not a "brain disease", it's a disease of the immune system... In the brain. And it's not that the beta amyloid plaques are bad! They are good actually, except that in this case they are attacking brain cells and that is bad. So the prevailing wisdom that we should focus on the plaques is actually correct, right? The theory is interesting, but this article is very badly written.