Future opportunities to leverage the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
Subtitle: workshop summary
By: Theresa Wizemann, Diana E. Pankevich, and Bruce M. Altevogt, rapporteurs ; Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Contributors: Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (Project); National Academies Press (U.S.); Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780309161886
Subjects: Diagnostic imaging; Brain; Methods; Alzheimer's disease; Imaging
Description: "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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: "The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council ..."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 19).

Also available in Open Book format via the National Academies Press home page.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Background; title: Session review; title: Key elements of ADNI: what lessons can be learned for moving forward?; title: Moving forward: opportunities and future synergies for ADNI 2.