Friday, June 3, 2011

Stress and Alzheimer's Disease

New scientific evidence shows that there is a connection.
These results complement previous demonstrations by the scientists that stress leads to the formation of beta-amyloid, another protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease. "Our findings show that stress hormones and stress can cause changes in the tau protein like those that arise in Alzheimer's disease," explains Osborne Almeida from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry.
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