A Patient Suffering from a Progressive Neurological Disorder Is Brought

question 40

Multiple Choice

A patient suffering from a progressive neurological disorder is brought to a neurologist for diagnosis.The neurologist notes that the patient's MRI reveals a great deal of cortical atrophy and suspects that the problem may be Alzheimer's disease.Which of the following symptoms,if also discovered,would confirm this diagnosis?

• A)Tremors and difficulty in initiating movement
• B)Double vision
• C)Loss of dopaminergic neurons in the basal ganglia
• D)Presence of amyloid plaques during postmortem examination of the brain

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