Plasticity May Make Neurons Vulnerable to Alzheimer’s Disease

This is surprising and disturbing news! Have we not considered neuroplasticity to be beneficial for many years? It helps e.g. many stroke victims to recover at least partially if not almost fully.

I have a suspicion that the neuroplasticity referred to in the article below is not the same I referred to above or that the author of this article erred when he/she used "plasticity" in the title of the article.

"Neurons that regularly remodel are more prone to Alzheimer’s disease and die when that remodeling goes awry, a new study suggests. ... Using a machine learning framework that integrated neuron type-specific mouse experiments with human studies, the researchers compared two types of neurons susceptible to Alzheimer’s with five resistant types. The most significant difference was that the vulnerable neurons were enriched with processes related to remodeling connections with adjacent neurons. ..."

Plasticity May Make Neurons Vulnerable to Alzheimer’s Disease Neurons that regularly remodel are more prone to the dysfunctions linked to the disease’s onset, a new experimental and computational study finds.