Researchers said the findings open the possibility that sporadic Alzheimer's cases may arise from infectious processes.

Can You ‘Catch’ Alzheimer’s Disease?

By News on the Net ——Bio and Archives--October 5, 2011

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Fox News The brain damage that characterizes Alzheimer's disease may start out in a form similar to that of infectious diseases, according to a new study.

The underlying mechanism of Alzheimer's is very similar to prion diseases like mad cow and its human form, Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. It involves a normal protein that becomes misshapen and is able to spread by transforming good proteins into bad ones. More...

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Researchers said the findings open the possibility that sporadic Alzheimer's cases may arise from infectious processes.

Can You ‘Catch’ Alzheimer’s Disease?

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