Medical assistants can earn anywhere between $20k and $36k, depending on their experience level, industry, and region of employment. Government-employed medical assistants ear â¦ n the most ($36,430/year average), and those employed by insurance agencies ($35,470).
Infections are a cause of encephalopathy. Many types of bacteria, viruses, and fungi can cause encephalitis by infection and inflammation of the brain tissue or of the meninges (meningitis) that line the brain and spinal cord.
But the lack of grey matter tissue loss in the clinically stable patients (patients who didn't progress to full-blown Alzheimer's disease) was unexpected. Why there are these differing patterns of brain atrophy between the two groups is not known, and is a topic of ongoing research.. Grey matter refers to brain tissue made up of nerve cell bodies -- the kinds of cells that are destroyed by Alzheimer's disease.