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November 22, 2006

Alzheimer's research makes dramatic shift to widen perspective

The Wall Street Journal online, November 17, 2006

For more than 20 years, the leading theory has held that sticky blobs in the brain called amyloid plaques cause Alzheimer's disease. But as I've written before, many scientists whose work challenges the amyloid dogma have been unable to publish in top journals, and their grant proposals, "go down in flames," as Mark Smith of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine told me. Read article (subscription required).

Posted by: Heidi Cool, November 22, 2006 02:11 PM | News Topics: Faculty, School of Medicine, The Wall Street Journal