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Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, coronal section of medial temporal lobe, close-up

Last updated on Tuesday, April 28 2009 by gliageek

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, coronal section of medial temporal lobe, close-up

Compared with the inferior temporal gyrus at the right side of the photograph, the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus demonstrate strikingly severe atrophy. Both the severity and the abrupt transition to relatively spared neocortex would be very unusual in Alzheimer's disease.

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