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Effie Mitsis, PhD

Effie Mitsis, PhD has written 1 posts for Alzheimers Disease Research Center

Could head injury be a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease?

The first evidence of a link between history of head injury and risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was a case report of AD pathology in the brain of a 38 year-old man who had suf- fered a single episode of a head injury 16 years earlier. This finding lead to the idea that head [...]