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More than Alzheimer’s: AI maps the added burden of Lewy body pathology

One challenge to advancing Alzheimer's disease treatments is that many patients have mixed brain pathologies, meaning more than one disease process is affecting the brain. This can complicate diagnosis, clinical trial design and treatment development because a therapy targeting only one disease process may be less effective if another is also present.

More than Alzheimer’s: AI maps the added burden of Lewy body pathology

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One challenge to advancing Alzheimer's disease treatments is that many patients have mixed brain pathologies, meaning more than one disease process is affecting the brain.

This can complicate diagnosis, clinical trial design and treatment development because a therapy targeting only one disease process may be less effective if another is also present.

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One challenge to advancing Alzheimer's disease treatments is that many patients have mixed brain pathologies, meaning more than one disease process is affecting the brain. This can complicate diagnosis, clinical trial design and treatment development because a therapy targeting only one disease process may be less effective if another is also present.

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