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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
Control
Alzheimer’s
Dementia
Alzheimer’s Disease:
Superimposed brain scans 11 months apart
Brain Scan of an individual with vascular dementia.
The arrows point to small areas of vascular damage
called “infarcts”
Brain Scan of an individual with
fronto-temporal dementia.
Brain activity in two individuals with dementia
Frontotemporal
Alzheimer’s
Dementia
Dementia