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In vivo, PET using ¹¹C-UCB-J does not support a cortical decrease of synaptic density with aging, whereas subcortically a small effect with aging in the caudate nucleus was observed. In addition, no association between synaptic density and sex was detected, which allows pooling of datasets of both sexes.
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