A sticky protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease disrupts the brain’s circuitry by inducing seizures that give barely an outward sign that they’re happening, a study of mice shows.
Excessive buildup of a protein called amyloid-beta in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, and scientists have long suspected that this protein plays a deleterious role in the disease.
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