Indications why older people are more susceptible to Alzheimer's disease

(DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases) The risk of developing Alzheimer's disease increases with age. Susanne Wegmann of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Berlin and US colleagues have uncovered a possible cause for this connection: Certain molecules involved in the disease, termed tau-proteins, sp