The Living Brain and Alzheimer’s Disease

The Living Brain and Alzheimer’s Disease
ISBN-10
3642593003
ISBN-13
9783642593000
Category
Medical
Pages
180
Language
English
Published
2012-12-06
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Bradley T. Hyman, Jean-Francois Demonet

Description

From large cross-sectional studies of autopsy material, it seems as if a time course of Alzheimer's Disease, at least on average, can be mapped out: a pattern of hierarchical vulnerability for neuronal loss and neurofibrillary tangles beginning in medial temporal lobe structures proceeding through association areas. Plaques follow their own temporal course, with widespread cortical deposits occurring even early in a disease process. The whole process may well take twenty years, the first half of which may be without overt symptoms.

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