" Fully a third of people who, as autopsies indicate, have the disease show no cognitive decline, no evidence of Alzheimer’s.1 At first, other scientists raised their eyebrows; now, after some five hundred autopsies, the finding is beyond dispute. Bennett tells me that he and his colleagues are approaching Alzheimer’s disease sideways. “Most of the world is focused on ‘How do we stop that pathology from developing, or how do we reverse it or get it out of your brain?’” he says. “We’re interested in those questions, too. But on the flip side, let’s assume for the moment that it’s going to happen. Then how do you build a better brain so that despite the accumulation "

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