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The terrible tangle of Alzheimer’s disease

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Adam Wilkins
Sep 02, 2024
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National Institutes of Health, 2011, https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/fall10/articles/fall10pg20-21.html

The words “tangle” and “Alzheimer’s disease” (AD) often occur together in articles about the disease. There, “tangle” usually refers to a specific structural aberration found in the brains of AD patients. It denotes the mesh-like bu…

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