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More accurate way to predict who will develop Alzheimer’s disease – new study – The Conversation UK

PET scans using a special tracer can pick up ‘tau tangles’ in the brain.

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Beta-amyloid and tau are two proteins that serve useful functions in the brain, but in Alzheimers disease the most common form of dementia they go rogue and destroy brain cells (neurons). This happens when beta-amyloid forms clumps on the outside of neurons…

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