{"id":148270,"date":"2022-10-16T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T14:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/researchers-have-a-new-theory-about-what-causes-alzheimers-and-its-not-plaque"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:24:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T14:24:43","slug":"researchers-have-a-new-theory-about-what-causes-alzheimers-and-its-not-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/researchers-have-a-new-theory-about-what-causes-alzheimers-and-its-not-plaque","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Have a New Theory About What Causes Alzheimer\u2019s, And It\u2019s Not Plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-have-a-new-theory-about-what-causes-alzheimers-and-its-not-plaque2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1906, Alois Alzheimer, a psychiatrist and neuroanatomist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alzint.org\/about\/dementia-facts-figures\/types-of-dementia\/alzheimers-disease\/alois-alzheimer\/\">reported<\/a> \u201ca peculiar severe disease process of the cerebral cortex\u201d to a gathering of psychiatrists in T\u00fcbingen, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The case was a 50-year-old woman who suffered from memory loss, delusions, hallucinations, aggression, and confusion \u2013 all of which worsened until her untimely death five years later.<\/p>\n<p>In the autopsy, Alzheimer noticed distinctive plaques on her brain. These plaques \u2013 clumps of amyloid-beta protein \u2013 are still considered to be the cause of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1906, Alois Alzheimer, a psychiatrist and neuroanatomist, reported \u201ca peculiar severe disease process of the cerebral cortex\u201d to a gathering of psychiatrists in T\u00fcbingen, Germany. The case was a 50-year-old woman who suffered from memory loss, delusions, hallucinations, aggression, and confusion \u2013 all of which worsened until her untimely death five years later. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}