The Fading Library

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Across
  1. 4. – Can bring recognition when words don’t.
  2. 5. – Medicine that never fades.
  3. 6. – Metaphor for the brain’s store of knowledge.
  4. 9. – What research and connection bring.
  5. 11. – Brain’s librarian, first affected in Alzheimer’s.
  6. 13. – Twisted protein strand that disrupts signals.
  7. 14. – What memories slowly do.
Down
  1. 1. – Smell that can spark emotion.
  2. 2. – Brain cell that sends information.
  3. 3. – What fades as neurons are damaged.
  4. 4. – Holds the “books” of memory.
  5. 7. – Disease that causes memory loss.
  6. 8. – What gets blocked by plaques and tangles.
  7. 10. – Stays alive even when memory slips.
  8. 12. – Sticky protein buildup in the brain.