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Lancet Neurol
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Accelerated long-term forgetting in presymptomatic autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional study.

Authors

Philip S J Weston, Jennifer M Nicholas, Susie M D Henley, Yuying Liang, Kirsty Macpherson, Elizabeth Donnachie, Jonathan M Schott, Martin N Rossor, Sebastian J Crutch, Christopher R Butler, Adam Z Zeman, Nick C Fox

Abstract

Tests sensitive to presymptomatic changes in Alzheimer's disease could be valuable for clinical trials. Accelerated long-term forgetting-during which memory impairment becomes apparent over longer periods than usually assessed, despite normal performance on standard cognitive testing-has been identified in other temporal lobe disorders. We assessed whether accelerated long-term forgetting is a feature of presymptomatic autosomal dominant (familial) Alzheimer's disease, and whether there is an association between accelerated long-term forgetting and early subjective memory changes.

PMID:29413314 | DOI:S1474-4422(17)30434-9