## Abstract ## Background Depression often precedes the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD) before the appearance of cognitive symptoms. Plasma Amyloid‐β peptide 42 (Aβ42) declines before and soon after the onset of AD, yet the relationship between plasma Aβ42 and depression is unclear. ## Methods
Plasma Aβ42 levels and depression in the elderly
✍ Scribed by Wei Qiao Qiu; Paul Summergrad; Marshal Folstein
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 47 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
- DOI
- 10.1002/gps.1762
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