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Tauopathy
Introduction
Tauopathy is a neurodegenerative disease resulting from the aggregation of tau protein.
Some examples of tauopathies are:
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Progressive supranuclear palsy
- Corticobasal degeneration
- Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, also known as Pick’s disease