Discovery in 1980 that brain tissue of patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease did not contain either the transmissible agent causing Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease ( CJD ) or an Alzheimer- specific agent using the method of Gibbs and Gajdusek that resulted in the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1976 ( Neurology, 1980). This study followed suggestions of Cook and a preliminary result from the Gajdusek Lab, that Alzheimer’s disease may be transmissible.
Publication:
GOUDSMIT, J., MORROW, C.H., ASHER, D.M., YANAGIHARA, R.T., MASTERS, C.L., GIBBS, C.J., JR., and GAJDUSEK, D.C. (1980)
Evidence for and against the transmissibility of Alzheimer disease.
Neurology 30 (9): 945-950.
PubMed publication date: Sept, 1980
PubMed link to abstract: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6775247