Untangling the Plaque Mess in Neurological Disorders: “Oh, What a Tangled Web we Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive!”

Aditi Bhargava
10 min readOct 23, 2022

In 1906, Alois Alzheimer first reported a connection between dementia and plaques after postmortem examination of the brain and medical records of a patient with strange behavioral symptoms. Dementia is a progressive, irreversible brain disease that slowly destroys cognitive skills…

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Aditi Bhargava

Dr. Aditi Bhargava is a molecular neuroendocrinologist with research focus on sex differences in stress biology and immunology.