Paradigm shift: Semantic memory decline as a biomarker of preclinical Alzheimer's disease

Biomarkers in Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-8

  Venneri, Annalena ^a,b   Mitolo, Micaela ^b   De Marco, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

AD; biomarkers; preclinical stage of AD; semantic memory

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; PRESENILIN 1; TAU PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDITORIAL; EPISODIC MEMORY; GENE MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; MEMORY TEST; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRODROMAL SYMPTOM; PROSE MEMORY TEST; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; SEMANTIC MEMORY; WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE; MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIOMARKERS; HUMANS; MEMORY;

EID: 84951867660     PISSN: 17520363     EISSN: 17520371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/bmm.15.53     Document Type: Editorial

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