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To Know or Not to Know: Ethical Issues Related to Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

In Alzheimer's disease (AD), pathological processes start in the brain long before clinical dementia. Biomarkers reflecting brain alterations may therefore indicate disease at an early stage, enabling early diagnosis. This raises several ethical questions and the potential benefits of early dia...

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Autores principales: Mattsson, Niklas, Brax, David, Zetterberg, Henrik
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2925376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20798843
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2010/841941