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Updated Alzheimer’s Diagnostic Criteria To Include Earlier Stages And Biomarkers

July 15, 2010 – 7:21 am

Following recommendations by expert groups in the US, criteria for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease, which have not changed in the last 25 years, will be updated to reflect scientific advances; the new guidelines will cover earlier stages and biomarkers of the disease. A workgroup of the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)/Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association (ADRDA) established the current criteria back in 1984, and these have been more or less universally adopted since then as the “bible” for diagnosis…

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