Longitudinal cognitive and biomarker changes in dominantly inherited Alzheimer disease

Eric McDade1, Guoqiao Wang2, Brian A Gordon2

  • 1From the Department of Neurology (E.M., J.H., V.B., A.M.F., D.M.H., J.C.M., K.P., R.J.B.), Division of Biostatistics (G.W., C.X.), Department of Radiology (B.A.G., T.L.S.B., D.S.M.), and Department of Pathology (N.J.C.), Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO; Department of Neuroscience (A.M.J.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia (FLENI) (R.A.), Instituto de Investigaciones Neurológicas Raúl Correa, Buenos Aires, Argentina; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (S.B.B., W.K.), PA; College of Physicians and Surgeons (J.N.), Columbia University, New York, NY; Department of Neurology (J.R.), Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Neurology (B.G., M.F.), Indiana University, Indianapolis; Massachusetts General Hospital (R.A.S., J.C.), Harvard Medical School, Boston; Butler Hospital and Brown University (S.S.), Providence, RI; Department of Neurology (N.R.G.-R.), Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL; Neuroscience Research Australia (P.R.S.); School of Medical Sciences (P.R.S.), University of New South Wales, Sydney; The Florey Institute and the University of Melbourne (C.M.), Parkville, Australia; Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology (M.N.R., N.C.F.), University College London, UK; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Munich (J.L.); Department of Neurology (J.L.), Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Tübingen (M.J.); and Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research (M.J.), University of Tübingen, Germany. ericmcdade@wustl.edu batemanr@wustl.edu.

Neurology
|September 16, 2018
PubMed
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