Gina Kolata wrote an interesting article for the New York Times that examines the simultaneous presence of various brain diseases in most cases of Alzheimers. Many of these diseases cause dementia, making it difficult to tease out what the patient has, and what brain disease is causing which symptoms. As she pointed out, this could mean that all of these various diseases are caused by a single unknown cause—possibly blood flow.
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