Enhancing synaptogenesis in diseases characterized by deficiencies in brain synapses

The loss of hippocampal and cortical synapses, resulting from impaired synaptogenesis, accelerated synaptic degeneration, or both, is one of the earliest neuropathologic findings in Alzheimer's Disease and is the finding that best correlates with cognitive symptoms (DeKosky and Scheff, 1990; Te...

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Main Author: Wurtman, Richard Jay (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation, 2012-12-18T16:52:37Z.
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