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At the Sixth Annual Mild Cognitive Impairment Symposium in Miami Beach, Florida, a multidisciplinary group of experts from the Alzheimer's disease (AD) community met to discuss the current status of AD intervention trials and future plans for designing trials of prodromal AD and/or mild cognitive impairment. There is no agreement regarding a single pathogenic mechanism to be targeted, although a consensus...
Given the expected increase in the older population and driving in this age group, concerns have been raised about the safety of older drivers. People over 65 years are over-represented in motor vehicle fatalities when calculated by distance driven. They are also at risk of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, that affect cognitive function. We have examined the brains of older...
Neurofibrillary degeneration in the nucleus basalis and a loss of its cortical cholinergic projections are prominent components of the neuropathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The AD brain is also associated with a degeneration of the noradrenergic projections arising from the nucleus locus coeruleus (LC), but the time course of this lesion is poorly understood. To determine whether the LC displays...
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