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title: "NACC"
source: https://www.jemoka.com/posts/kbhnacc/
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NACC is a large, longitudinal dataset for neurodegentitive disease as a project in collaboration with Dr. Alyssa Weakley at UC Davis.
Dr. Alyssa Weakley is interested in
Early Cognitive Change Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) &ldquo;How early can we detect, using NACC, change?&rdquo;
dataset construction Participants are given a battery of mental capacity tests, these values are tracked over time There are also family member questionnaire Neuroimaging and biomarker data Other things tracked in the data&mdash;
Amyloid levels of spinal fluid Detecting even earlier focus good to focus on specifically alzheimer&rsquo;s type dementia (so, ignore things on lewy body disease) Using clinical diagnosis as the dependent variable, but good to see the autopsy results Items 3 and 7 are independent codes; if alzhimer&rsquo;s is measured, MCI is not measured. visa versa.
