Contribution of Asymmetric Synapse Loss to Lateralizing Clinical Deficits in Frontotemporal Dementias

Abstract
SYNAPSE LOSS in Alzheimer disease (AD) was initially reported in 19871 and was first correlated with cognitive decline in 1990.2 In a 1991 landmark study by Terry and colleagues,3 synapse loss was found to be the major correlate of cognitive impairment in AD. This has subsequently been confirmed by a number of studies.4-8