The Brains of People with Alzheimer's Disease Develop

question 309

Multiple Choice

The brains of people with Alzheimer's disease develop:

• A) an enlarged hippocampus and hypothalamus.
• B) an abundance of beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.
• C) shrunken ventricles and loss of cerebral spinal fluid.
• D) a proliferation of new neurons in the hippocampus.

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