gwern comments on New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function in mice - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 27 May 2015 04:53:22PM 3 points [-]

In particular, this treatment seems predicated on the amyloid hypothesis, rather than the tau hypothesis; the amyloid hypothesis has yet to yield a drug which does anything in humans, last I heard...