Alzheimer's Disease
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...accumulation of plaques and by neurofibrillary tangles (malformed nerve cells), changes in brain tissue first described by Alois Alzheimer in 1906. The plaques result from the release and accumulation of excessive amounts of amyloid-beta proteins, normal proteins...