Mild cognitive impairment--an early stage of Alzheimer's disease?

doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-7508-8_3

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Mild cognitive impairment--an early stage of Alzheimer's disease?

Journal of neural transmission. Supplementum - 1 Jan 1998

Almkvist O, Basun H, Bäckman L, Herlitz A, Lannfelt L, Small B, Viitanen M, Wahlund L O, Winblad B

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The hypothesis that mild cognitive impairment (MCI) represents an early stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD) was investigated by reviewing recent research from three sources: asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals carrying mutations that cause AD, hospital-samples of non-demented patients with MCI...

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Aged
Alzheimer Disease
Carrier State
Cognition Disorders
Humans
Incidence
Membrane Proteins
Middle Aged
Mutation
Presenilin-1

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