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The influence of parental history of Alzheimer's disease and apolipoprotein E epsilon4 on the BOLD signal during recognition memory.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Feb 2009
Xu Guofan, McLaren Donald G, Ries Michele L, Fitzgerald Michele E, Bendlin Barbara B, Rowley Howard A, Sager Mark A, Atwood Craig, Asthana Sanjay, Johnson Sterling C
Abstract excerpt
First-degree family history (FH) of sporadic Alzheimer's disease and the apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele (APOE4) are risk factors for Alzheimer's disease that may affect brain function prior to onset of clinical symptoms. In this functional MRI (fMRI) study, we used an episodic recognition task that required discrimination of previously viewed (PV) and novel (NV) faces to examine differences in blood oxygen...
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