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Jul 26 2022

The AT(N) system for describing biological changes in Alzheimer’s disease: a plain language summary

Neurodegenerative Disease Management has published it’s second plain language summary to help people learn more about new techniques to diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease. This summary provides an overview of an article discussing a new classification system used to improve diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.

Read the summary here.

The original article on which this summary is based is called ‘Developing the ATX(N) classification for use across the Alzheimer disease continuum’ and was originally published in the journal Nature Reviews Neurology. The original article can be read here.

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Written by Joanne Walker · Categorized: Brain and nerves · Tagged: Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid-β, AT(N) system, biomarkers, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, continuum, diagnosis, lay summary, neurodegeneration, tau

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