Early Alzheimer's disease diagnostics: Wait! Wait! Don't tell me!

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1. AP wire story. Study: ‘pre-dementia’ is rising, especially in men. Marilynn Marchione, July 28; filed 10:29 PM EDT.
2. Alzforum Live Discussion. Early detection of Alzheimer disease: a virtual town hall Meeting, sponsored by the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative. Moderated by Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of the National Institutes of Health, president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and member of the Alzheimer's Study Group (ASG). Presenters included Welcoming comments by June Kinoshita, Executive Editor, Alzheimer Research Forum; About the Alzheimer's Study Group, presented by Rob Egge, Center for Health Transformation; The strategic importance and challenges of early detection of AD, presented by Sid Gilman, MD, Director, Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center; Early-stage and preclinical AD, presented by John Morris, MD, Director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Washington University St Louis; Imaging biomarkers for early detection of AD, presented by Michael W. Weiner, MD, principal investigator, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Director, Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease, VA Medical Center, San Francisco; Early detection of AD: fluid biomarkers, presented by Anne Fagan, PhD, Research Associate Professor of Neurology, Washington University, St Louis; Translating early detection to the clinic, presented by Doug Galasko, MD, Interim Director of UCSD Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Research Center; The role of clinical and research Centers of Excellence in early diagnosis, presented by Rachelle Smith Doody, MD, PhD, Effie Marie Cain Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research, Baylor College of Medicine; What pharma has/what pharma needs, presented by Richard Mohs, PhD, leader, Alzheimer's Disease Team, Eli Lilly and Company; Early detection of AD: the patient's and caregiver's perspective, presented by Bill Bridgwater, patient advocate, National Board of Alzheimer's Association; and Early detection and drug development: a brief overview, presented by Paul Aisen, MD, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine's Department of Neurosciences, Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS). A recording of the webinar is accessible at alzforum.org.
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4. Generational model: the Nevada Vital Aging Initiative.