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Shadi Yaghi, MD, Yeseon P. Moon, MS, Consuelo Mora-McLaughlin, MS, et al. Stroke. Originally published April 23, 2015. “Moderate to severe LAE was an independent marker of recurrent cardioembolic or cryptogenic stroke in a multiethnic cohort of ischemic stroke patients.”
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Lena Johansson, PhD, Xinxin Guo, MD, PhD, Paul R. Duberstein, et al. Neurology. Originally published October 21, 2014. “A higher degree of neuroticism in midlife was associated with increased risk of AD dementia and long-standing distress over 38 years… Extraversion was associated with a lower degree of…
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