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Alzheimer's Disease

It brings dementia and slow death to more than 100,000 Americans a year. No one knows its cause or how to stay its inexorable course. Investigators are focusing on six conceptual models of the disease

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 252 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “Alzheimer's Disease” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 252 No. 1 (), p. 62
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0185-62