Abstract

The focus of the program project is on the behavioral and biomedical correlates of the clinical course of defined groups of individuals with (senile) demential of the Alzheimer type (SDAT/DAT) in comparison with the course of healthy aging. The psychometric core contributes to this effort by administering a battery of psychometric tests that assess memory (primary, secondary, semantic) as well as visuospatial and visuoconstructive, speeded psychomotor, sensory/motor, and language abilities. They are used to document the cognitive status of the research participants. These measures will also be related to clinical and neurapathological indices to determine the behavioral- neuropathological correlates in SDAT among the very old. They will also provide information about psychometric test performance in very late life in individuals who are not clinically demented. Psychometric test performance will be compared with data obtained from laboratory studies of memory processes to address the theoretical mechanisms underlying cognitive deficits in SDAT/DAT, especially very early in the course of the disease. Longitudinal changes in psychometric test performance will be compared with changes in hormone/metabolite changes, again in an effort to understand the mechanisms of the disease.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
5P01AG003991-19
Application #
6563256
Study Section
Project Start
2002-01-01
Project End
2002-12-31
Budget Start
1998-10-01
Budget End
1999-09-30
Support Year
19
Fiscal Year
2002
Total Cost
$178,517
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Washington University
Department
Type
DUNS #
062761671
City
Saint Louis
State
MO
Country
United States
Zip Code
63130

  Publications

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Suárez-Calvet, Marc; Capell, Anja; Araque Caballero, Miguel Ángel et al. (2018) CSF progranulin increases in the course of Alzheimer's disease and is associated with sTREM2, neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. EMBO Mol Med 10:
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Kawamura, Naoki; Yokota, Tatsuya; Hontani, Hidekata (2018) Super-Resolution of Magnetic Resonance Images via Convex Optimization with Local and Global Prior Regularization and Spectrum Fitting. Int J Biomed Imaging 2018:9262847
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Maxwell, Taylor J; Corcoran, Chris; Del-Aguila, Jorge L et al. (2018) Genome-wide association study for variants that modulate relationships between cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-beta 42, tau, and p-tau levels. Alzheimers Res Ther 10:86
Cruchaga, Carlos; Del-Aguila, Jorge L; Saef, Benjamin et al. (2018) Polygenic risk score of sporadic late-onset Alzheimer's disease reveals a shared architecture with the familial and early-onset forms. Alzheimers Dement 14:205-214

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