New study characterizes cognitive and anatomic differences in Alzheimer’s disease gene carriers

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

In the most comprehensive study to date, neurologists have clearly identified significant differences in the ways that Alzheimer’s disease affects patients with and without the apolipoprotein E e4 gene, a known genetic risk factor for the neurodegenerative disease, using a combination of cognitive and neuroanatomic measures. The study found that ... continue reading