Alzheimer Disease in Down Syndrome

Authors

  • J Gordon Millichap Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-3-8-3

Keywords:

Alzheimer Disease, Down Syndrome, Hypothyroidism

Abstract

A clinical prospective study of dementia of the Alzheimer type in 96 individuals with Down syndrome over age 35 years is reported from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, Waltham, MA and the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Published

1989-08-01

Issue

Section

Mental Retardation and Dementias