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Alzheimer’s Paradox: Why One-Third of Patients Never Lose Their Minds

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Something peculiar happens in roughly 30 percent of people who develop Alzheimer’s disease. The plaques accumulate, the tangles form, the characteristic wreckage of neurodegeneration spreads across the hippocampus, and yet their minds stay sharp. They remember faces. They follow conversations. They die, eventually, with full Alzheimer’s pathology in their heads and no dementia on their records.
Evgenia Salta has been thinking about these people for a long time. A neuroscientist at th

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