Author response: Neuropsychiatric symptoms predict hypometabolism in preclinical Alzheimer disease

We thank Landin-Romero and Kumfor for the comments. Our regression techniques showed an association between neuropsychiatric inventory (NPI) scores and [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in preclinical Alzheimer disease (AD).1 We did not find posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) hypermetabolism, but higher PCC-FDG uptake was found in patients with preclinical AD with higher NPI scores at baseline. We did not find hypermetabolism even when we contrasted the mean FDG uptake at the local maxima within the cluster.

Source: Neurology - October 30, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Gauthier, S., Ng, K. P., Pascoal, T. A., Mathotaarachchi, S., Chung, C.-O., Benedetti, A. L., Shin, M., Kang, M. S., Li, X., Ba, M., Kandiah, N., Rosa-Neto, P. Tags: WRITECLICK & amp;reg; EDITOR ' S CHOICE Source Type: research