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It is not dementia that causes brain lesions. It is the brain lesions that could have caused Dementia. Dementia Praecox was the type of dementia that involved brain lesions post mortem. You can try to read passages from the "Dementia Praecox Studies: A Journal of Psychiatry of Adolescence," (1920 Vol. 3-4 by Holmes, B.T.)

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