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What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt 2)

What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt 2)

What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt 2)

The Quanta Podcast

May 10, 202341m 27s

Show Notes

If plaques of amyloid protein in the brain aren’t the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease, what is? Researchers investigating alternative possibilities have faced resistance from the biomedical establishment for decades, but intriguing theories about the role of defects in protein processing and the immune system have emerged. (Part 2 of two episodes.)