Using a new mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, researchers have found that Alzheimer's pathology originates in amyloid-beta (Abeta) oligomers in the brain, rather than the amyloid plaques previously thought by many researchers to cause the disease.
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Alzheimer's memory problems originate with protein clumps floating in the brain, not amyloid plaques
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