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Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

Brainstorming diseases Consistent classification of neuropsychiatric diseases is problematic because it can lead to misunderstanding of etiology. The Brainstorm Consortium exami...

Cerebral PET with florbetapir compared with neuropathology at autopsy for detection of neuritic amyloid-β plaques: a prospective cohort study

Microglia and inflammatory mechanisms in the clearance of amyloid β peptide

Abstract There is now abundant evidence that brain microglia, when activated, have the lineage, receptors, and synthetic capacity to participate in both potentially neurotoxic i...

[¹⁸F]flutemetamol amyloid positron emission tomography in preclinical and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease: Specific detection of advanced phases of amyloid‐β pathology

Abstract Background Amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) has become an important tool to identify amyloid‐β (Aβ) pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Here, we d...

Genetic studies of plasma analytes identify novel potential biomarkers for several complex traits