Alzheimers Disease: Causes

Doctors know that Alzheimer's patients have amyloid plaques and tangles in the brain. These are accumulations of proteins that attach themselves to brain cells. There is on-going research as to why this occurs in some people and not others. Family history is one of many contributing factors being investigated.

Icyou | December 26, 2007

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