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Tau and Aβ imaging, CSF measures, and cognition in Alzheimer’s disease

Matthew R. Brier, Brian Gordon, Karl Friedrichsen and 13 more

Science Translational Medicine · 2016

doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf2362

Abstract

PET imaging of pathological tau correlates more closely with Alzheimer’s disease–related cognitive impairment than does imaging of β-amyloid.

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