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Heterogeneity in Familial Alzheimer’s Disease

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Heterogeneity of Alzheimer’s Disease

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Abstract

Alzheimer’s original description in 1907 portrayed a 51-year-old woman who died following a dementing illness and who was found to have senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles throughout the cerebral cortex. Her clinical features were those of profound memory impairment and language and visuospatial deficits. There was no family history reported.

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  1. INSERM U324, 2ter rue de Alesia, F-75015, Paris, France

    Francois Boller

  2. Hopital Broca, 54 rue Pascal, F-75013, Paris, France

    F. Forette

  3. National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA

    Z. S. Khachaturian

  4. Clinique de Neurologie, CHU La Timone, Bd Jean Moulin, F-13385, Marseille Cedex 05, France

    Michel Poncet

  5. Fondation Ipsen pour La Recherche Therapeutique, 30, rue Cambronne, F-75737, Paris Cedex 15, France

    Yves Christen PH. D.

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Rossor, M.N., Kennedy, A.M., Newman, S.K. (1992). Heterogeneity in Familial Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Boller, F., Forette, F., Khachaturian, Z.S., Poncet, M., Christen, Y. (eds) Heterogeneity of Alzheimer’s Disease. Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer’s Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46776-9_9

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