You are viewing the site in preview mode

Skip to main content

Table 1 Clinical characteristics of subjects

From: Creating three dimensional models of Alzheimer’s disease

Classification Age/Sex Symptoms Living arrangement DRS FDG-PET PiB-PET Tau-PET
Normal 54/F None Independent 143 (94%) (−) (−) (−)
Clinically-Mild AD 78/M Mild memory dysfunction. Rarely gets lost driving Independent 120 (1%) Precuneus hypometabolism (+) (+)
Clinically-Moderate AD 74/F Memory poor. Gets lost. Reduced daily activity. Assisted Living 96 (<1%) Bilateral parietotemporal hypometabolism (+) (+)
Clinically-Severe AD (Severe-1) 84/M Doesn’t recognize family. Needs help dressing and bathing. Incontinent. Nursing home 83 (<1%) Bilateral frontal, parietal, temporal hypometabolism (+) (+)
AD with radiologically severe hippocampal atrophy
(Severe-2)
81/M Severe memory loss. Gets lost driving and in home. Independent 112 (<1%) Bilateral parietotemporal, lateral occipital, precuneus, and posterior cingulate hypometabolism (+) (+)
  1. Abbreviations: AD alzheimer’s disease, F female, M male, DRS dementia rating scale (144 point scale, lower scores indicate poorer cognitive functioning, age-related normal percentile indicated in parentheses [16]), FDG-PET [(18) F]-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, PiB-PET Pittsburgh compound B positon emission tomography, Tau-PET tau positon emission tomography, (−) = negative scan results, (+) = positive scan results