Title | Developing a global strategy to prevent Alzheimer's disease: Leon Thal Symposium 2010. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Authors | Khachaturian ZS, Petersen RC, Snyder PJ, Khachaturian AS, Aisen P, de Leon M, Greenberg BD, Kukull W, Maruff P, Sperling RA, Stern Y, Touchon J, Vellas B, Andrieu S, Weiner MW, Carrillo MC, Bain LJ |
Journal | Alzheimers Dement |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 2 |
Pagination | 127-32 |
Date Published | 2011 Mar |
ISSN | 1552-5279 |
Keywords | Alzheimer Disease, Congresses as Topic, Global Health, Humans, Preventive Medicine, Registries |
Abstract | The fourth Leon Thal Symposium (LTS2010) was convened in Toulouse, France, on November 3, 2010. This symposium reviewed design parameters that are necessary to develop comprehensive national databases on healthy aging. Such datasets offer the potential to serve as the foundation for a systems-approach to solve the dual public health problems of: (1) early detection of people who are at elevated risk for Alzheimer's disease, and (2) the development of interventions to delay onset of, or prevent, late-life dementia. The symposium considered three interrelated components of a National Database for Longitudinal Studies on Healthy Aging as follows: (a) a registry of healthy aging adults; (b) refined computer-based assessments for data gathering, including assessments of behavioral/memory changes associated with aging that are appropriate for broad use in nonexpert settings; and (c) high performance computing/supercomputer-based approaches for health data modeling and mining. |
DOI | 10.1016/j.jalz.2011.02.005 |
Alternate Journal | Alzheimers Dement |
PubMed ID | 21414553 |
Grant List | P30 AG008051 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States U01 AG016976 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States |
Related Institute:
Brain Health Imaging Institute (BHII)