Age-accelerated cognitive decline in asymptomatic adults with CSF β-amyloid

Lindsay R Clark1, Sara E Berman2, Derek Norton2

  • 1From the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (L.R.C., S.A., S.C.J., C.M.C.), William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison; Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (L.R.C., S.E.B., D.N., B.B.B., S.A., S.C.J., C.M.C.), Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute (L.R.C., R.L.K., E.J., B.B.B., S.C.J., C.M.C.), Medical Scientist and Neuroscience Training Programs (S.E.B.), and Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics (D.N.), University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (K.B., H.Z.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B., H.Z.), Institute of Neuroscience & Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden; and Department of Molecular Neuroscience (H.Z.), University College London, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK. lrclark@medicine.wisc.edu.

Neurology
|March 11, 2018
PubMed
Abstract

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