Motor Neuron Disease and Alzheimer's Disease

The patient was a 71 year old man who developed muscle wasting and weakness and had electromyographic evidence of motor neuron disease. Approximately one year later he was noted to undergo a profound change in personality, and to develop social inappropriateness, and uncharacteristic use of foul or crude language. At postmortem, brain changes typical of Alzheimer's disease were found.
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Keith A. Johnson (keith@bwh.harvard.edu), J. Alex Becker (jabecker@mit.edu)