Alzheimer's Spreads in the Brain like a Virus, New Study Finds | HelpingYouCare™

helpingyoucare.com — A new study published on February 1 in the journal PosS One has found that Alzheimer's Disease spreads throughout the brain through a distorted protein known as Tau jumping from one cell to another, like a virus. Previously, scientists had known that Alzheimer's is characterized by deposits of a plaque protein known as beta amyloid in the brain, along with tangles formed by the protein tau, but they had not known the mechanism through which these disabling deposits spread throughout the brain. Feb 6, 2012 View in Crawl 4