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ArticleJournal of neuropathology and experimental neurology2018

The Revised National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center's Neuropathology Form-Available Data and New Analyses.

Lilah M Besser, Walter A Kukull, Merilee A Teylan, Eileen H Bigio, Nigel J Cairns, Julia K Kofler, Thomas J Montine, Julie A Schneider, Peter T Nelson

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Article in Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 183 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

183 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Lilah M BesserDepartment of Epidemiology, National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Walter A KukullDepartment of Epidemiology, National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Merilee A TeylanDepartment of Epidemiology, National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Eileen H BigioFeinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Nigel J CairnsDepartment of Neurology, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Julia K KoflerDepartment of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Thomas J MontineDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Julie A SchneiderDepartment of Pathology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois.
Peter T NelsonSanders-Brown Center on Aging, Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

Funding

NATIONAL ALZHEIMERS COORDINATING CENTER (NACC)U01AG016976 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KUKULL, WALTER ANTHONY · 1999 to 2020
$72.8M
Smartphone-Based "Burst" Cognitive AssessmentsP01AG003991 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Tammie Lee Smith Benzinger · 1985 to 2026
$69.5M
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH CENTERP50AG005681 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MORRIS, JOHN · 1985 to 2019
$52.1M
TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASEP50AG005133 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BECKER, JAMES T. · 1985 to 2019
$43.0M
Neuropathology CoreP30AG013854 · NIA · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI BIGIO, EILEEN H. · 1996 to 2020
$28.9M
University of Kentucky Alzheimer's Disease Core Center - Biomarker CoreP30AG028383 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI SCHMITT, FREDERICK · 2006 to 2020
$23.3M
Working Memory in Parkinson Disease: A Cognitive & Systems Neuroscience ApproachP50AG047366 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI HENDERSON, VICTOR · 2015 to 2019
$7.9M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG003991NIA NIH HHS P30 AG013854NIA NIH HHS P30 AG028383NIA NIH HHS P50 AG005133NIA NIH HHS P50 AG005681NIA NIH HHS P50 AG047366NIA NIH HHS U01 AG016976
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuropathologic evaluation remains the gold standard for determining the presence and severity of aging-related neurodegenerative diseases. Researchers at U.S. Alzheimer's Disease Centers (ADCs) have worked for >30 years studying human brains, with the goals of achieving new research breakthroughs. Harmonization and sharing among the 39 current and past ADCs is promoted by the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC), which collects, audits, and disburses ADC-derived data to investigators on request. The past decades have witnessed revised disease definitions paired with dramatic expansion in the granularity and multimodality of the collected data. The NACC database now includes cognitive test scores, comorbidities, drug history, neuroimaging, and links to genomics. Relatively, recent advances in the neuropathologic diagnoses of Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia catalyzed a 2014 update to the NACC Neuropathology Form completed by all ADCs. New focal points include cerebrovascular disease (including arteriolosclerosis, microbleeds, and microinfarcts), hippocampal sclerosis, TDP-43, and FTLD. Here, we provide summary data and analyses to illustrate the potential for both hypothesis-testing and also generating new hypotheses using the NACC Neuropathology data set, which represents one of the largest multi-center databases of carefully curated neuropathologic information that is freely available to researchers worldwide.

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Data Interpretation, StatisticalAgedAged, 80 and overAlzheimer DiseaseCohort StudiesCross-Sectional StudiesDatabases, FactualFemaleHumansMale

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PMID29945202
PMCPMC6044344

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