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Visuomotor impairments in older adults at increased Alzheimer's disease risk.

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Three-year trajectories of caregiver burden in Alzheimer's disease.

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In vivo decreased dopamine transporter uptake in corticobasal degeneration presenting with primary progressive aphasia without parkinsonism.

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Inhibition of tau aggregation by a rosamine derivative that blocks tau intermolecular disulfide cross-linking.

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Microinfarct disruption of white matter structure: a longitudinal diffusion tensor analysis.

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Randomized controlled trials in frontotemporal dementia: cognitive and behavioral outcomes.

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Cerebral microbleeds in patients with Parkinson's disease.

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Spontaneous Running Wheel Improves Cognitive Functions of Mouse Associated with miRNA Expressional Alteration in Hippocampus Following Traumatic Brain Injury.

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Visual short-term memory deficits associated with GBA mutation and Parkinson's disease.

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Quality of life and mild cognitive impairment in early Parkinson's disease: does subtype matter?

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What contributes to a good quality of life in early dementia? Awareness and the QoL-AD: a cross-sectional study.

Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2014 Jun 11;12:94. PubMed: 24919416

Inga Zerr on A Blood Test for Preclinical Prion Disease, But Will It Be Used?

COMMENT Risk of blood-born transmission of variant CJD has been a matter of concern for many years. Strong measures such as blood filtration and donor exclusion criteria have been adapted in order to minimize the risk for humans. Only few blood transfusion-relate

PAPER Soto C, Saborio GP, Anderes L

Cyclic amplification of protein misfolding: application to prion-related disorders and beyond.

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A Blood Test for Preclinical Prion Disease, But Will It Be Used?

RESEARCH NEWS 2014-06-13 Research News Researchers can now detect misfolded prion proteins in the blood of humans and primates in the asymptomatic stages of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). Thousands of people were exposed to this prion disease by eating meat from cattle