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Alzheimers Dement. 2005 Jul;1(1):55-66. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2005.06.003.

Ways toward an early diagnosis in Alzheimer's disease: the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Susanne G Mueller, Michael W Weiner, Leon J Thal, Ronald C Petersen, Clifford R Jack, William Jagust, John Q Trojanowski, Arthur W Toga, Laurel Beckett

Affiliations

  1. Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.

PMID: 17476317 PMCID: PMC1864941 DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2005.06.003

Abstract

With the increasing life expectancy in developed countries, the incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and thus its socioeconomic impact are growing. Increasing knowledge over the last years about the pathomechanisms involved in AD allow for the development of specific treatment strategies aimed at slowing down or even preventing neuronal death in AD. However, this requires also that (1) AD can be diagnosed with high accuracy, because non-AD dementias would not benefit from an AD-specific treatment; (2) AD can be diagnosed in very early stages when any intervention would be most effective; and (3) treatment efficacy can be reliably and meaningfully monitored. Although there currently is no ideal biomarker that would fulfill all these requirements, there is increasing evidence that a combination of currently existing neuroimaging and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood biomarkers can provide important complementary information and thus contribute to a more accurate and earlier diagnosis of AD. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is exploring which combinations of these biomarkers are the most powerful for diagnosis of AD and monitoring of treatment effects.

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