Dementia spreads via connected brain networks

ScienceDaily
Oct 14, 2019, 11:17 am119 pts
Scientists used maps of brain connections to predict how brain atrophy would spread in individual patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), adding to growing evidence that the loss of brain cells associated with dementia spreads via the synaptic connections between established brain networks.

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