The brain damage seen in some cases of Alzheimer's disease could have its roots in an infectious prion-like disease, such as that seen in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) and its human form Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), according to an international study published this week in the journal Molecular Psychiatry that was led by the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in the US.
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