The disease, which took on the name of the psychiatrist, Alois Alzheimer, still mystifies doctors a century later.

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More than a century after Alois Alzheimer first identified the disease that bears his name, it is still ultimately fatal, and no treatment is available to slow or stop its progression.

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The first hints about cellular debris came almost a century ago, when psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer studied the brains of demented patients after death and found them clogged with strange deposits he dubbed amyloid plaques.

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The physical manifestations of the disease that Alois Alzheimer noticed in 1906 are sticky plaques of one type of protein, now known as beta-amyloid, and nerve-cell-engulfing tangles of a second type, called tau protein.

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The first hints about cellular debris came almost a century ago, when the psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer studied the brains of demented patients after their deaths and found them clogged with strange deposits that he named amyloid plaques.

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