The Neurologists Who Fought Alzheimer’s By Studying Nuns’ Brains

by Natalie Zarrelli for Atlas Obscura: The 30-year partnership between convents and brain researchers has been unexpectedly rewarding. In Mankato, Minnesota, in 1991, David Snowden sat across from an 100-year-old nun named Sister Mary, administering a test. He asked her……

by Natalie Zarrelli for Atlas Obscura: The 30-year partnership between convents and brain researchers has been unexpectedly rewarding. In Mankato, Minnesota, in 1991, David Snowden sat across from an 100-year-old nun named Sister Mary, administering a test. He asked her……

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