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LASSEN, Niels Alexander (1926 – 1997)

1926 – 1997

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1974 CE

#14115

Multi-infarct dementia. A cause of mental deterioration in the elderly.

The authors showed that contrary to the prevailing view that most dementias were caused by hardened brain arteries (cerebral atherosclerosis), most were multi-infarct dementias—dementias caused by multiple, smal…