over a period of 3 years , a 40 year old man develops generalized dystonic , hyperkinetic movements and progressive dementia , his mother and one sister have a similar disease but his father and another sister are healthy. which of the following lesions is mostly likely to be present in the cerebral nervous system of the patient and his affected family members. A) atrophy  of the caudate nuclei, B) loss of pigmented cells in the sustengria nigra, C) microglial nodules and multinucleated giant cells in the white matter, D) neurofibrillary tangles in the cortical neurons, E) spongiform changes in the cerebral cortex

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over a period of 3 years , a 40 year old man develops generalized dystonic , hyperkinetic movements and progressive dementia , his mother and one sister have a similar disease but his father and another sister are healthy. which of the following lesions is mostly likely to be present in the cerebral nervous system of the patient and his affected family members. A) atrophy  of the caudate nuclei, B) loss of pigmented cells in the sustengria nigra, C) microglial nodules and multinucleated giant cells in the white matter, D) neurofibrillary tangles in the cortical neurons, E) spongiform changes in the cerebral cortex

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