# One type of brain cell may invite Alzheimer's

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**Created:** [December 17, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://archive.menshealtharchive.com/t/one-type-of-brain-cell-may-invite-alzheimers/1380 "2018-12-17T19:15:28Z")\
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> **[One type of brain cell may invite Alzheimer's: Research on toxic proteins could...](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181217115756.htm)**
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> Researchers found that excitatory neurons -- those that are more likely to trigger an action (as opposed to inhibitory neurons, which are less likely to prompt neural activity) -- are more vulnerable to accumulations of abnormal tau protein, which is...

  
Researchers found that excitatory neurons – those that are more likely to trigger an action (as opposed to inhibitory neurons, which are less likely to prompt neural activity) – are more vulnerable to accumulations of abnormal tau protein, which is increasingly being implicated in Alzheimer’s disease.