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Synaptic Compensation as a Probable Cause of Prolonged Mild Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease: Implications from a Transgenic Mouse Model of the Disease
7 Feb 2017
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a slow, progressive neurodegenerative disease in which cognitive decline takes place over a period of several years with a very variable period of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and, in some cases, relatively long period before progression to dementia. The cognitive deficit during MCI is probably due to neuronal loss, an intermediate level of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary...
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