Re: plaques & tangles and how to untangle a tangled web.

2000-05-01 Thread Tim Shearon
Annette's advice re letting the student provide the update/correction is an excellent suggestion. (I'm writing it down!) Especially since my own review of several sources shows numerous misconceptions, diagrams that don't match the text, and a flip-flopping numerous times on what is correct (tangl

Re: plaques & tangles and how to untangle a tangled web.

2000-05-01 Thread Drnanjo
Annette, Unless I am very dim compared to everyone else on the list, this has probably happened to all of us in some way (either giving incorrect or dated information to our classes.) My take on it is that I certainly feel better if I am the one who is allowed to correct my own mistake rather

RE: plaques & tangles and how to untangle a tangled web.

2000-05-01 Thread Rob Flint
Annette, I found the following in a chapter by Troncoso, Crain, Sisodia, & Price in Khachaturian & Radebaugh's (1996) edited text entitled Alzheimer's Disease: Cause(s), Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care. Troncoso et al. indicate that plaques are extracellular (although they do not specify the loca