Alzheimer plaques precede neuron damage

linkurl:Alzheimer's;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/home/53215/ disease researchers have long tried to address a linkurl:key question:;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/15006/ Do amyloid plaques cause the disease, or do other disease mechanisms come first? A new linkurl:study;http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7179/abs/nature06616.html published today (February 6) in Nature reports that plaques form immediately before neurite damage, suggesting that amyloids do play a dir