It’s with great sadness that we mourn the loss of Rahul Desikan, a neuroscientist, neuroradiologist, and leading researcher of neurodegenerative diseases, who passed away in July from an aggressive form of ALS. Rahul, who was an assistant professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, neurology and pediatrics at UCSF, was an active member of the ADNI […]
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ADCS Clinical Operations would like to bring to your attention that the MRI Technical Manual, and MRI Scan Information forms have been updated to reflect the release of the updated MRI protocol sequences for ADNI2. The updated MRI Technical Manual can be found on the ADNI2 Data Portal under the Docs Tab: Study Docs Folder > Procedures Manual […]
Continue reading...Monday, August 12, 2013
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“The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is an ongoing, longitudinal, multicenter study designed to develop clinical, imaging, genetic, and biochemical biomarkers for the early detection and tracking of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The study aimed to enroll 400 subjects with early mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 200 subjects with early AD, and 200 normal control subjects; $67 […]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 25, 2013
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The ADNI Biostatistics Core will be holding the second part of a two-part web-based training session on ADNI data on: Thursday, August 1, 2013 from 8-10am PDT. For those who did not participate in the first training and are new to ADNI or are not familiar with the LONI website, please refer to the slides […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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The AIBL study announces the release of PiB and MRI images and corresponding ADNI compliant clinical and psychometric data for the three year follow-up time point of the AIBL study. Three year clinical data is now available on 221 participants imaged at baseline and three year imaging data is available on 177 of these participants. Of these, 152 […]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 27, 2012
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Abstract: “The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) three-dimensional T(1)-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisitions provide a rich data set for developing and testing analysis techniques for extracting structural endpoints. To promote greater rigor in analysis and meaningful comparison of different algorithms, the ADNI MRI Core has created standardized analysis sets of data comprising scans that […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 4, 2012
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For the past 8 years, the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging from University of Southern California has been organizing and archiving international data received from the Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. The goal of the program is to gather as much data as possible about the disease in order to raise the effectiveness of prevention and treatment […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 4, 2012
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Since 2004, UCLA’s Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) has been responsible for receiving, organizing, archiving and disseminating the stream of data generated by the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), an ambitious, worldwide effort by scientists to define the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. That stream of data will now turn into a flood, as LONI partners with an ambitious public-private […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Comments Off on Revolutionary project will obtain entire genome sequences in fight against Alzheimer’s – MedicalXpress
Since 2004, UCLA’s Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) has been responsible for receiving, organizing, archiving and disseminating the stream of data generated by the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), an ambitious, worldwide effort by scientists to define the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. That stream of data will now turn into a flood, as LONI partners […]
Continue reading...Monday, July 2, 2012
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UCLA researchers have a strong interest in Alzheimers disease. For example, in 2004, UCLAs Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) began compiling all the data regarding the biology of individuals with Alzheimers disease that was generated by the Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). ADNI is an ambitious, worldwide effort by scientists to define the progression of […]
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