That difference is "unexpected but not inexplicable, " says Zaven Khachaturian, president of Keep Memory Alive in Las Vegas and former head of Alzheimer's research at the National Institutes of Health.

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Proponents of the amyloid theory "listen to each other and reinforce each other, and after a while it becomes more of a religious belief, " says Zaven Khachaturian, former head of Alzheimer's research at the National Institutes of Health.

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The Tchaikovsky Competition, designed to elevate the Communist nation even higher by proving Russian superiority in art as well as in science, featured a jury heavily weighted with Soviet musical greats, including pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels, and composers Dmitri Kabalevsky and Aram Khachaturian.

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