A/T/N: An unbiased descriptive classification scheme for Alzheimer disease biomarkers

Clifford R Jack¹, David A Bennett², Kaj Blennow²+11

• ¹From the Departments of Radiology (C.R.J.) and Neurology (D.S.K., R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center (D.A.B.), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL; Clinical Neurochemistry Lab (K.B.), Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Mölndal Hospital, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden; Alzheimer's Association (M.C.C.), Chicago, IL; Division of Neurology (H.H.F.), UBC Hospital Clinic for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Memory Clinic (G.B.F.), University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Switzerland; IRCCS Fatebenefratelli (G.B.F.), The National Centre for Alzheimer's Disease, Brescia, Italy; Sorbonne Universités (H.H.), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris; Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d'Alzheimer (IM2A) and Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM) (H.H.), Département de Neurologie, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France; Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (W.J.J.), University of California, Berkeley; Departments of Radiology and Neurology (K.A.J.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Alzheimer Center and Department of Neurology (P.S.), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment (R.A.S.), Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Centre des Maladies Cognitives et Comportementales (B.D.), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Paris; and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 (B.D.), AP-HP, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France. jack.clifford@mayo.edu.+1