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Commentary, Disorders of the Nervous System

Fallacies in Neuroscience: The Alzheimer's Edition

Karl Herrup
eNeuro 10 February 2022, 9 (1) ENEURO.0530-21.2021; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0530-21.2021
Karl Herrup
Department of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-2548
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0530-21.2021
PubMed 
35144999
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History 
  • Received December 23, 2021
  • Accepted December 24, 2021
  • Published online February 10, 2022.
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Copyright © 2022 Herrup This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Karl Herrup
  1. Department of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-2548
  1. Correspondence should be sent to Karl Herrup at herrup{at}pitt.edu.
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  1. Author contributions: K.H. wrote the paper.

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  • The author declares no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by the Department of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh.

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  • Dept of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh

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