More clues to midlife dementia that erases personality

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Results of magnetic resonance imaging scans of a frontotemporal lobar degeneration patient obtained 15 months apart. Red areas indicate regions where the patients brain has significantly less volume than a normal brain. (Robert LevensonUC Berkeley an ...
Results of magnetic resonance imaging scans of a frontotemporal lobar degeneration patient obtained 15 months apart. Red areas indicate regions where the patient's brain has significantly less volume than a normal brain. (Robert Levenson/UC Berkeley and Bruce Miller/UCSF)

New clues have been uncovered by University of California, Berkeley, and UC San Francisco researchers to a mystifying, hidden dementia that robs its victims of empathy and social skills, and leads to an early death.


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