Piecing Together Alzheimer's

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PETER H. ST GEORGE-HYSLOP is a neurologist and molecular geneticist. After receiving his M.D. degree from the University of Ottawa, he did postgraduate work in internal medicine and neurology at the University of Toronto and postdoctoral training in molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School. He is currently director of the Center for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto and director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at Toronto Western Hospital. He is interested both in basic research into the molecular causes of Alzheimer¿s disease and in translating recent fundamental scientific insights into clinically useful methods for dealing with the disease.

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This article was originally published with the title “Piecing Together Alzheimer's” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 283 No. 6 (December 2000)

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