reviewNew England Journal of MedicineJan 27, 2010Closed access

Alzheimer's Disease

Brown University · St. Elizabeth's Medical Center · +3 more institutions

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Abstract

This review of Alzheimer's disease assembles a variety of findings relevant to the mechanism of the disease and ties them together using the current understanding of the basis of the loss of cognition: the accumulation of misfolded proteins, which cause oxidative and inflammatory damage to the brain and, ultimately, synaptic dysfunction.

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Keywords
  • Medicine
  • Disease
  • Mechanism (biology)
  • Neuroscience
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Cognition
  • Oxidative damage
  • Oxidative stress
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