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Objective While Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) show some common memory deficits, these two disorders show partially overlapping complex spatiotemporal patterns of neural dynamics. The objective of this study is…
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The joint analysis of multimodal neuroimaging data is critical in the field of brain research because it reveals complex interactive relationships between neurobiological structures and functions. In this study, we focus on investigating…
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