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Key protein shown to cause frontotemporal dementia

Researchers at the Crick & UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology have shown that an increase in a type of tau protein in the brain drives degeneration of nerve cells causing frontotemporal dementia
15 Nov 2023
Written by Katherine Denyer
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