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It Seems Like Alzheimer's but Peek into Brain Reveals a Mimic

• mzs 8y ago
  >"What is now clear is that a lot of dementia is caused by gloppy proteins. We used to think it was just two gloppy proteins, amyloid and tau," Nelson said. >The next step: Finding better ways to measure abnormal TDP-43 and diagnose LATE. (It stands for an unwieldy scientific name — Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy.) https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/guidelines-proposed-newly-defined-alzheimers-brain-disorder https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/guidelines-proposed-newly-defin...