Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias Summit 2016: National research priorities

Roderick A Corriveau1, Walter J Koroshetz2, Jordan T Gladman2

  • 1From the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R.A.C., W.J.K., J.T.G., S.J., D.B., M.E., C.S.M., P.A.S., B.-A.S., M.L.S., C.L.T., A.K.G.), Bethesda, MD; Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center (D.A.B.), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL; Department of Neurology (S.T.C.), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (S.L.-J.D.), Radnor, PA; Department of Neuroscience (D.W.D.), Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (H.F.); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (H.F.), New York, NY; Department of Neurology (S.M.G.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Eli Lilly and Company (M.L.H.), Lilly Research Centre, Erl Wood Manor, Windlesham, UK; Department of Neurology (D.S.K.), Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN; Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain (J.J.M., K.S.M.) and College of Physicians and Surgeons (K.S.M.), Columbia University, New York, NY; National Institute on Aging (C.H.P., N.B.S.), Bethesda, MD; Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology (W.W.S.), and Department of Pathology (W.W.S.), University of California San Francisco; Lewy Body Dementia Association (A.T.), Lilburn, GA; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (S.P.W.), Bethesda, MD; and Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (D.M.H.), Hope Center for Neurological Disorders (D.M.H.), and Department of Neurology (D.M.H.), Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Roderick.corriveau@nih.gov.

Neurology
|November 10, 2017
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