Looking at the referenced article...
Its interesting, and its not a subject I know much about. But surely any
of the studies on cell loss in Alzheimers etc have used age-matched
brains for control purposes. Any cell loss would have been in comparison
to controls?
In <933071831.773052 at server.australia.net.au> "John" <johnhkm at netsprintXXXX.net.au> writes:
>"While the brain demonstrates a remarkable ability to compensate for those
>losses--forestalling any noticeable effect until the losses become, she
>said, "very, very profound"-- it now appears that even those neuron losses
>that do occur are confined to populations of cells that may not play any
>significant role in memory.
>"It represents a real paradigm shift in neuroscience," Gallagher said. ....
>"
>http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home98/nov98/brain.html
>John
