jcoleman at msvax.mssm.edu wrote:
>> In article <Pine.HPP.3.91.960105181152.27613A-100000 at steroid.ecst.csuchico.edu>,
Tamera Blood <tamera at ecst.csuchico.edu> writes:
> >My grandmother was talking about somone who went crazy from something
> >called "the shrinking brain desease" When questioned, my grandmother
> >insisted that was the name.
> >
> >Does anybody here have any idea what she was talking about???
> >
Probably cortex atrophy. Actually, it is not a bad description
of what is going on.
Karoly
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