Stages of the pathologic process in Alzheimer disease: age categories from 1 to 100 years.

Braak H, Thal DR, Ghebremedhin E, Del Tredici K
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2011 Nov; 70(11):960-9. PMID: 22002422. Abstract
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The authors present the evidence that tauopathy may begin in sporadic AD much earlier than initially thought. They suggest that early accumulation of tau may have remained uncovered since it occurs in the lower brainstain whilst the earliest pathological alterations in AD are classically explored in cortex and hippocampus. This is important to keep in mind, specifically given the strong correlation between amyloid-beta and tau accumulations.