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Clinically I'm a pathologist, which means that we work with two groups of patients. So the first group is patients who have brain tumors and other neurological diseases that are requiring them to see a neurosurgeon. We're the people that the neurosurgeon gives the biopsy to, and we actually make the diagnosis and tell the surgeon what disease the patient has. We also serve as consultants who advise the neuro-oncologists in terms of treatment, because we do the genomic testing on the brain tumors that we take out of these patients. The other thing that I do, is I spend a lot of time working with patients that do neurodegenerative diseases. And again, this is Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, related diseases. And what we're doing there is we are looking at them mainly with autopsy examinations, unfortunately. But trying to determine precisely what kind of dementia a patient has, and then give that information back to the family, together with information about the disease course in thei