Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 5 , Pages 419-428 , November 2000

Does longer-term memory storage never become overloaded, and would such overload cause Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia?

Received 28 September 1999 ,Accepted 6 January 2000.

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Medical Hypotheses
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