[Correspondence] Accelerated long-term forgetting in asymptomatic APOE ε4 carriers

In The Lancet Neurology, Philip Weston and colleagues report that presymptomatic individuals carrying familial Alzheimer's disease gene mutations demonstrate accelerated long-term forgetting over an extended 1 week retention interval compared with gene-negative controls.1 These findings raise the question of whether accelerated long-term forgetting is also detectable in presymptomatic individuals at genetic risk of the much more common sporadic form of Alzheimer's disease.

Source: Lancet Neurology - March 22, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Jacqueline F Zimmermann, Christopher R Butler Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research