Due to the progressive aging of the population, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is becoming a
healthcare burden of epidemic proportions for which there is currently no cure …

Abstract Alzheimer's disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia, has reached epidemic
proportions, with major social, medical and economical burdens. With no currently available …

Abstract Background The European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia (EPAD)
Programme is a pan-European project whose objective is to deliver a platform, adaptive …

Background Definitions and diagnostic criteria for all medical conditions are regularly
subjected to reviews and revisions as knowledge advances. In the field of Alzheimer's …

Population-based clinic-pathological studies have established that the most common
pathological substrate of dementia in community-dwelling elderly people is mixed …

Now is the time to launch the era of Alzheimer's disease (AD) prevention research, establish
the methods and infrastructure to rapidly evaluate presymptomatic AD treatments and …

The field of Alzheimer disease (AD) prevention has been a culmination of basic science,
clinical, and translational research. In the past three years since the new 2011 AD diagnostic …

The increase in life expectancy has resulted in a high occurrence of dementia and
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Research on AD has undergone a paradigm shift from viewing it …

• We propose that a concerted effort be made to discover modifiable risk factors for dementia
and to exploit those already identified.• International collaboration is needed on largescale …

Dementia, a major cause of disability and institutionalization in older people, poses a
serious threat to public health and to the social and economic development of modern …