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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 Using single photo-emission computed tomography scanning to look at cerebral perfusion changes in patients with delirium, Dr. Tamara Fong, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's department of neurology, found that frontal or parietal cerebral perfusion abnormalities occur during delirium.
In yet another study, Harvard gerontologist Richard Jones finds that hospitalized older people with lower levels of education may be at increased risk for delirium.
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SOURCES: Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D., professor, neurology, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, Massachusetts General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Charlestown; Piyush Patel, M.D., professor, anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego; January 2007 Journal of Gerontology
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