Neuroscientist Eric Kandel won the Nobel Prize for his discovery that diseased neurons in the hippocampus are the cause of memory loss in Alzheimer's disease and other formsof dementia.

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Eric Kandel won the Nobel Prize for his research on the biological mechanisms of learning and memory, particularly his work on the sea slug Aplysia, not specifically for discovering the cause of memory loss in Alzheimer's disease.

Neuroscientist Eric Kandel Won the Nobel Prize for His Discovery