Advances in Social Behavior Research

Advances in Social Behavior Research

Vol. 3, 01 March 2023

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Evaluation of Pathological Perspectives Related to Alzheimer’s Disease

Qingyang Song * 1
1 Catholic Memorial, Boston, 02132, United States

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Advances in Humanities Research, Vol. 3, 540-546
Published 01 March 2023. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by EWA Publishing
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Citation Qingyang Song. Evaluation of Pathological Perspectives Related to Alzheimer’s Disease. LNEP (2023) Vol. 3: 540-546. DOI: 10.54254/2753-7048/3/2022582.

Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), one of the degenerative diseases and dementias, caused more than millions of people to suffer from it. Over the past few decades, scientists have been putting much effort to study this particular disease in the hope of finding the drug to cure AD. In this condition, two significant hallmarks were discovered, senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), furthermore leads scientists to focus on Aβ and tau protein to study the pathogenesis of AD. However, the real culprit contributing to AD still remains unknown. Although many amyloid-targeted drugs and tau-targeted drugs are developed, they all failed, causing scientists to cast doubt on the amyloid-related perspective and tau-related perspective. This article will mainly discuss the amyloid hypothesis and the tau hypothesis, the factors driving the formation of senile plaques and NFTs, the scientific data supporting and opposing these two perspectives, the criticisms they are facing, and most importantly the future orientation for scientists to study. Here, after understanding the amyloid-related perspective, tau-related perspective, and other perspectives proposed for AD, we extrapolate that the pathogenesis of AD is multifactorial; moreover, the future AD study should take multiple factors into account.

Keywords

senile plaque, tau protien, Aβ, NFT., APP, Alzheimer’s disease

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries (ICEIPI 2022), Part II
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01 March 2023
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Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
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