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High Seas treaty talks and discoveries from the deep

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There was shrinkage, basically, yes, greater shrinkage, i mainly in regions related to the sense of smell. Some global changes in the size of the brain as well. But what is very clear is that these effects are greater with age. So henwe look at the participants in their fifties, their brain changes for those who had become infected with saskovit were not that different from the brancages we saw in the non infected participants. If they were in their seventies, these effects were really marked. You didn't just see a reduction in brain size in thescans, you actually saw its effects. Yes, the infected participantsa again, ared

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