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Is there a brain condition that causes a person's brain to age faster then his body ages?
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Alzheimer's for one: Neurodegenerative diseases, which include alzheimer's disease, pick's disease, lewy body disease, and many more involve brain areas which deteriorate (ie age) more quickly than the rest of our body parts.
Answered 1/14/2014
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