Spread of tau protein measured in brains of Alzheimer ' s patients

Researchers have measured how deposits of the pathological protein tau spread through the brain over the course of Alzheimer ' s disease. Their results show that the size of the deposit and the speed of its spread differ from one individual to the next, and that large amounts of tau in the brain can be linked to episodic memory impairment.
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