Bursting Neurons and Fading Memories: An Alternative Hypothesis of the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease

by Michael R. D'Andrea

Advances in Alzheimer's disease (AD) research have been challenging and without major breakthroughs in understanding its pathological basis. The reigning hypothesis suggests AD is the result of extracellular amyloid deposition that seed to form amyloid plaques, which then grow and kill neighboring neurons. However, there are several inconsistencies with this hypothesis, not to mention the inability to show clinical benefit in several failed clinical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0128019794
• ISBN13: 9780128019795
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 170 Pages