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Understanding the twin phenomena of aging and the dementing illnesses common in old age is a challenge to clinicians and investigators. Alzheimer's disease has now garnered the most attention as the predominant cause of dementia. Not long ago, a major effort of medical and lay education was to counter the myth that dementia -- or a global decline in intellectual ability sufficient to produce functional disability -- was a normal accompaniment of aging¹. Another myth that stood for seven decades after Alzheimer's work² was that the gradual narrowing of cerebral blood vessels somehow damaged the neurons and caused dementia, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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