Body + Brain

Against the Grain: An Alternative View of Alzheimer’s

Throughout his career, Duke University neurology professor Allen Roses has challenged what for decades has been the prevailing orthodoxy in Alzheimer’s research: namely, the “amyloid hypothesis,” which suggests that a protein called beta-amyloid clogs up the brain, killing neurons and causing the dementia associated with Alzheimer’s disease. But “beta-amyloid is the result [of Alzheimer’s], rather […]