Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Volume 4, Issue 4 , Pages 255-264 , July 2008

The pilot European Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative of the European Alzheimer's Disease Consortium

  • Giovanni B. Frisoni

      Affiliations

    • IRCCS Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39-030-3501-361; Fax: +39-030-3501313.
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  • Wouter J.P. Henneman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Michael W. Weiner

      Affiliations

    • Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Veterans Administration Medical Center and Departments of Radiology, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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  • Philip Scheltens

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology and Alzheimer Center, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Bruno Vellas

      Affiliations

    • INSERM U. 558, Gerontopole, Pole Geriatrie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Toulouse, France
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  • Emma Reynish

      Affiliations

    • INSERM U. 558, Gerontopole, Pole Geriatrie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Toulouse, France
    • Geriatric Medicine, Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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  • Jaroslava Hudecova

      Affiliations

    • IRCCS Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
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  • Harald Hampel

      Affiliations

    • Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, The Adelaide and Meath Hospital Incorporating The National Children's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
    • Department of Psychiatry, Alzheimer Memorial Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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  • Katharina Burger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Alzheimer Memorial Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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  • Kaj Blennow

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
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  • Gunhild Waldemar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, Section 2082, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  • Peter Johannsen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, Section 2082, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  • Lars-Olof Wahlund

      Affiliations

    • Alzheimer Research Center and Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Department of Neurobiology Caring Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Giancarlo Zito

      Affiliations

    • Ospedale S Giovanni Calibita Fatebenefratelli e AFaR – Associazione Fatebenefratelli per la Ricerca, Roma, Italy
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  • Paolo M. Rossini

      Affiliations

    • Ospedale S Giovanni Calibita Fatebenefratelli e AFaR – Associazione Fatebenefratelli per la Ricerca, Roma, Italy
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  • Bengt Winblad

      Affiliations

    • Alzheimer Research Center and Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Department of Neurobiology Caring Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Frederik Barkhof

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

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PII: S1552-5260(08)00127-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2008.04.009

Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Volume 4, Issue 4 , Pages 255-264 , July 2008

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