Future Opportunities to Leverage the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Workshop Summary

Author: Altevogt, Bruce M.; Pankevich, Diana E.; Wizemann, Theresa
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309161886
eISBN Pdf: 9780309161893
eISBN Epub: 9780309186889
Place of publication: United States
Year of digital publication: 2011
Month: January
Pages: 37
DDC: 616
Language: English

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Nearly 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, and 26.6 million people are affected worldwide. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), a public-private partnership, provides a publicly available, international database of clinical and imaging data to foster research and collaboration on Alzheimer's research worldwide. The Institute of Medicine held a workshop on July 12, 2010, to explore opportunities to use information from and partnerships formed because of ADNI to continue to improve the understanding and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.