Despite the presence of plaques and tangles and brain shrinkage -- what appeared to be unquestionable Alzheimer's -- the nuns who had belonged to these brains showed no signs of having the disease while they were alive.
Unatoč postojanju plakova, čvorova, te smanjivanju mozga, što je neupitno ukazivalo na Alzheimera, mozgovi tih redovnica nisu pokazivali znakove postojanja bolesti dok su bile žive.