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Alzheimer’s Dementia: Diagnosis

Alzheimer’s Dementia: Diagnosis. autopsy Plaques and tangles in neurons Not detectable on fMRI Show up as neural death. Alzheimer’s. Control. Functional brain scan. Alzheimer’s D ementia. Control. Alzheimer’s Disease: Superimposed brain scans 11 months apart.

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Alzheimer’s Dementia: Diagnosis

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  1. Alzheimer’s Dementia: Diagnosis • autopsy • Plaques and tangles in neurons • Not detectable on fMRI • Show up as neural death Alzheimer’s Control

  2. Functional brain scan Alzheimer’s Dementia Control

  3. Alzheimer’s Disease:Superimposed brain scans 11 months apart

  4. Brain Scan of an individual with vascular dementia.The arrows point to small areas of vascular damage called “infarcts”

  5. Brain Scan of an individual withfronto-temporal dementia.

  6. Brain activity in two individuals with dementia Frontotemporal Dementia Alzheimer’s Dementia

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