5.19.2006
Alzheimer's and Dementia Publication
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Congratulations to both Dr. Wes Ashford (Stanford/VA Alzheimer's Center) and Dr. Ruth O'Hara (Stanford University) and all the other authors of the paper published in the scholarly journal Alzheimer's and Dementia.
Here is a list of authors:
J. Wesson Ashford (a), Soo Borson(b), Ruth O’Hara(c), Paul Dash(d), Lori Frank(e), Philippe Robert(f), William R. Shankle(g), Mary C. Tierney(h), Henry Brodaty(i), Frederick A. Schmitt(j), Helena C. Kraemer(k) and Herman Buschke(l)
a Stanford / VA Alzheimer Center, Department of Psychiatry, Palo Alto VA Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA
b Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
c Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
d Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
e Center for Health Outcomes Research, United BioSource Corporation, Bethesda, MD, USA
f Department of Psychiatry, University of Nice, Nice, France
g Cognitive Sciences, U.C. Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
h Geriatric Research Unit, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
i Department of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
j Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
k Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
l Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
The paper looks at general screening for Alzheimer's Disease and other impairments and provides an assessment of the fast-growing at risk population. We will provide some additional details later on.
