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This presentation should really be entitled “What can the laboratory contribute to the diagnosis and management of the illness of a person with clinical manifestations of an aging brain?”
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Fields, W.S. (1972). Laboratory Adjuncts to Differential Diagnosis. In: Gaitz, C.M. (eds) Aging and the Brain. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8503-5_9
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