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In organic dementia of the Alzheimer type (presenile dementia) the mean hemisphere CBF is low. The regional rCBF distribution is also normal and its pattern shows important correlations with various subsymptoms of the intellectual deterioration (1,2,3).
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Ingvar, D.H., Schwartz, M.S. (1975). The Cerebral Blood Flow in Low Pressure Hydrocephalus. In: Lundberg, N., Pontén, U., Brock, M. (eds) Intracranial Pressure II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66086-3_32
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