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Alzheimer's Disease

Known as: Dementia of the Alzheimer's type, alzheimers dementia, Senile Dementia, Alzheimer Type 
A degenerative disease of the BRAIN characterized by the insidious onset of DEMENTIA. Impairment of MEMORY, judgment, attention span, and problem… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
A robust method to estimate the intracranial volume across MRI field strengths (1.5T and 3T)
Review
2009
Review
2009
The amyloid hypothesis for Alzheimer’s disease: a critical reappraisal
The amyloid hypothesis has been the basis for most work on the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Recent clinical trials based… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
The Effects of Donepezil in Alzheimer’s Disease – Results from a Multinational Trial1
Donepezil has been shown to be well tolerated and to improve cognition and global function in patients with mild to moderately… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Donepezil improves cognition and global function in Alzheimer disease: a 15-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Donepezil Study Group.
BACKGROUND Donepezil hydrochloride (Aricept) is a selective acetylcholinesterase inhibitor developed for the treatment of… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Synergistic Effects of Traumatic Head Injury and Apolipoprotein-epsilon4 in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease
Article abstract-The apolipoprotein-epsilon4 allele increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but cerebral deposition of… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in an elderly urban population
We studied the prevalence of different types of dementia in an elderly population in Stockholm, Sweden, in relation to age, sex… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Neurotoxicity of a fragment of the amyloid precursor associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Amyloid deposition in senile plaques and the cerebral vasculature is a marker of Alzheimer's disease. Whether amyloid itself… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Characterization and chromosomal localization of a cDNA encoding brain amyloid of Alzheimer's disease.
Four clones were isolated from an adult human brain complementary DNA library with an oligonucleotide probe corresponding to the… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Loss of M2 muscarine receptors in the cerebral cortex in Alzheimer's disease and experimental cholinergic denervation.
Cerebral cortex samples from patients with Alzheimer's disease and from rats after experimental cholinergic denervation of the… 
Highly Cited
1942
Highly Cited
1942
The mask of sanity.
Psychotic disorders may be concealed behind outer manifestations that give little or no suggestion of anything so serious. The… 
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