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Fading Minds: Why There's Still No Cure for Alzheimer's

Oct 15, 201953 min
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Episode description

In the 1970s, the founder of the National Institute on Aging convinced a nation that senility was really Alzheimer's and could be cured. Research money flowed to one theory, leaving alternatives unexamined — today it's come up short.

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