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Cerebral blood flow and metabolic abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease.
Annals of nuclear medicine - 1 Apr 2001
Matsuda H
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In this review I summarize observations of PET and SPECT studies about cerebral blood flow and metabolic abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease. In very early AD flow or metabolism reduces first in the posterior cingulate gyrus and precuneus. This reduction may arise from functional deafferentation caused by primary neural degeneration in the remote area of the entorhinal cortex that is the first to be...
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