Alzheimer

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Alzheimers Dementia Diagnosis

• autopsy
• Plaques and tangles in neurons
• Not detectable on fMRI
• Show up as neural death

Alzheimers
Control
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Functional brain scan
Alzheimers Dementia
Control
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Alzheimers DiseaseSuperimposed brain scans 11
months apart
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Brain Scan of an individual with vascular
dementia.The arrows point to small areas of
vascular damage called infarcts
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Brain Scan of an individual withfronto-temporal
dementia.
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Brain activity in two individuals with dementia
Frontotemporal Dementia
Alzheimers Dementia