Moving the Needle on Alzheimer's Disease with an Anti-Oligomer Antibody

Affiliations

¹ From the Departments of Neurology (S.G., M.E.E.), Psychiatry (S.G.), Pediatrics (M.E.E.), and Genetics and Genomic Sciences (M.E.E.), and the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (S.G.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx (S.G.) - both in New York.

Editorial

Sam Gandy et al. N Engl J Med. 2023.

. 2023 Jan 5;388(1):80-81.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMe2214981.

¹ From the Departments of Neurology (S.G., M.E.E.), Psychiatry (S.G.), Pediatrics (M.E.E.), and Genetics and Genomic Sciences (M.E.E.), and the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (S.G.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx (S.G.) - both in New York.

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Comment on

Lecanemab in Early Alzheimer's Disease.
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