What researchers thought they knew about Alzheimer’s disease is changing

Researchers thought they knew about Alzheimer’s disease but a new brain scanning technique is proven them wrong.  The scan could allow doctors to predict with reasonable accuracy which brain regions will wither and atrophy in Alzheimer’s by identifying the places where tau protein “tangles” have built up. The study findings support the growing contention that toxic tau proteins drive brain degeneration in Alzheimer’s more directly than the disease’s other hallmark, amyloid protein plagues. Read article here…

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