[Coleus]

this is a terrible disease....

is this amyloid the same protein which causes Alzheimer's?

[MHGinTN]

Amyloid plaques are found upon autopsy of Alzheimer's patients, and they are a devastating interference in the brain, but it is not decided yet whether the amyloids cause the Alzheimer syptoms and progression or are a by product of some other cause yet the 'killers in the brain'. [An as yet undetected virus may be causing the plaques that then kill the patient, for example.]