2001 was a big year for Alzheimer’s disease. For the first time, researchers have produced Alzheimer's-like pathological changes in neurons growing in a cell culture. This finding, produced at the University of Calgary, ties together dozens of small research projects from a half-dozen laboratories to establish, finally, the underlying causal mechanism for Alzheimer's disease.

In Smart Life News Volume 7, No. 2, Steven Wm. Fowkes summarizes the last decade of scientific findings and integrates them into a coherent, comprehensive and referenced account of Alzheimer's disease.

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The Alzheimer’s Disease Chapter from the 1993 book Smart Drugs II, by Ward Dean, M.D., John Morgenthaler and Steven Wm. Fowkes is posted on this web site. It is accompanied by the Recommended Combination Therapies Table from that book.

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