The findings of this study are supported by reports from world class laboratories. However, the Funding community has chosen to ignore this evidence and has poured billions on research for a cure based on the plaques and fibriles. [Please, read article from the LPN Union: "Missing the Mark with Dementia", by Michael C. LaFerney, PHD,APRN-BC, posted 07/09.

The scientific community also missed the mark when it decided that what damage the neurons, the DESEASE, are the Beta and Tau proteins, and poured billions into finding, THE CURE, that is, how to get rid of, or avoid the formation, of said proteins. In the face of significant evidence that that could not be so [the Nun study, and various individual cases where the post morten data showed cortexes and hippocampuses filled with plaques and tangles, but records of behavior did not manifest any of the AD characteristics

The state boards of professional regulation missed the mark when they have failed to adopt the rules and regulations necessary to govern, and license, the practice of AD Care at all levels - from general public, family, caregiver, janitor,security, CNA, LPN, RN, MD, DMD, so on adinfinitum

This sounds like a great discovery for those of us living this disease or whatever one calls it.