A controversial theory based on new research on Alzheimer&rsquo;s is gaining ground in the scientific community. The research appears to indicate that the brain is not destroyed by sticky plaques, but by free-floating clumps of protein. 
The ongoing study, done by the Alzheimer&rsquo;s Disease Research Center of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, found that amyloid beta protein called oligomers are the main players in robbing the brain of memory.