Changes in cognition during the preclinical phase of Alzheimer's Disease: Findings from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention (WRAP)
The International Neuropsychological Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The International Neuropsychological Society maintains responsibility for this program and its content.Educational Objectives
- Summarize the techniques used to assess Alzheimer’s disease proteinopathy including imaging and biofluids.
- Describe the biological processes that appear to drive cognitive decline and their temporal scale in the presymptomatic stage of Alzheimer’s disease.
- Compare the relative value of a biological definition of AD to a clinical definition.
Course Information
| Target Audience: | Intermediate |
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| Availability: | Date Available: 2022-10-18 |
| You may obtain CE for this webinar at any time. | |
| Offered for CE | Yes |
| Cost | Members $20 |
| Non-Members $30 | |
| Refund Policy | This webinar is not eligible for refunds |
| CE Credits 1.0 |
Abstract
The cognitively unimpaired stage of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is quite long in duration, but the interval varies widely from person to person. This talk will describe some of the brain and cognitive changes that we have observed from over a decade of biomarker imaging within the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) and related studies. The talk will give an overview of the WRAP study including its approach to measuring cognition, and describe the approaches to biomarker imaging we and others use to characterize AD proteinopathy. I’ll describe how we have derived temporal information from biomarker imaging such that age of onset of AD proteinopathy and disease duration can be estimated. I’ll also describe some of the factors that influence age of onset and duration of the pre-symptomatic stage of AD duration of the pre-symptomatic stage of AD.
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Disclosures
Dr. Johnson receives a consulting fee from Roche Diagnostics, Prothena and Merck.
Author(s)
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Sterling Johnson, PhD is a clinical neuropsychologist and the Jean R. Finley Professor of Geriatrics and Dementia in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health where he has worked since 2002. He is the Associate Director and Biomarker Core leader of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. He is also the principal investigator of the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (or WRAP) which is a long-running observational longitudinal cohort study of 1700 adults who are enriched for risk of Alzheimer’s Disease due to parental family history. Johnson’s lab is interested in longitudinal brain changes in preclinical AD that define its window, and in disambiguating the brain and cognitive changes that take place in AD and related disorders including vascular disease from normal aging as early as possible using imaging and fluid biomarkers and cognitive measures. His research has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1997. He has authored or coauthored over 350 peer reviewed publications.