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… (More)
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2011
Highly Cited
2011
The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer’s Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association charged a workgroup with the task of revising the 1984 criteria… (More)
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer’s Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's…
The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association charged a workgroup with the task of developing criteria for the… (More)
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Review
2010
Review
2010
Alzheimer's disease.
From the Department of Neurology, Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Brighton, MA (H.W.Q.); the Department of Neurology… (More)
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Review
2008
Review
2008
The brain's default network: anatomy, function, and relevance to disease.
Thirty years of brain imaging research has converged to define the brain's default network-a novel and only recently appreciated… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Forecasting the global burden of Alzheimer’s disease
BACKGROUND Our goal was to forecast the global burden of Alzheimer's disease and evaluate the potential impact of interventions… (More)
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Review
2007
Review
2007
Research criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: revising the NINCDS–ADRDA criteria
The NINCDS-ADRDA and the DSM-IV-TR criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are the prevailing diagnostic standards in research… (More)
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Review
2002
Review
2002
The amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease: progress and problems on the road to therapeutics.
It has been more than 10 years since it was first proposed that the neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) may be caused… (More)
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Review
2002
Review
2002
Alzheimer's disease is a synaptic failure.
In its earliest clinical phase, Alzheimer's disease characteristically produces a remarkably pure impairment of memory. Mounting… (More)
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Gene dose of apolipoprotein E type 4 allele and the risk of Alzheimer's disease in late onset families.
The apolipoprotein E type 4 allele (APOE-epsilon 4) is genetically associated with the common late onset familial and sporadic… (More)
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Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: report of the NINCDS-ADRDA Work Group under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease.
Clinical criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease include insidious onset and progressive impairment of memory and other… (More)
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