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by Christine Lawrence MD By now most people are familiar with the association of the tangle and plaques in the brain of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The plaques are a sticky protein, amyloid-B, that congregates on surfaces of brain tissue, and impedes neural communication. Plaque formation precedes the memory loss associated with the disease by