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Cerebrospinal fluid and blood biomarkers for neurodegenerative dementias: An update of the Consensus of the Task Force on Biological Markers in Psychiatry of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry

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WORLD JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 244-328

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15622975.2017.1375556

Keywords

Alzheimer's disease; dementia; biomarkers; cerebrospinal fluid; consensus

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Funding

  1. Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, Germany (BiomarkAPD) [01ED1203D]
  2. Kompetenznetz Demenzen [01GI0420]
  3. Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking [EMIF 115372]
  4. MRC [MR/K01014X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  5. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [P50NS053488] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
  6. NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [P01AG026276, P01AG017586, P01AG003991, P30AG010124, P50AG005681, R56AG054073, R01AG051848, R01AG012101, P30AG008051, ZIAAG000975, R01AG054073, U19AG024904, K01AG053474] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER

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In the 12 years since the publication of the first Consensus Paper of the WFSBP on biomarkers of neurodegenerative dementias, enormous advancement has taken place in the field, and the Task Force takes now the opportunity to extend and update the original paper. New concepts of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the conceptual interactions between AD and dementia due to AD were developed, resulting in two sets for diagnostic/research criteria. Procedures for pre-analytical sample handling, biobanking, analyses and post-analytical interpretation of the results were intensively studied and optimised. A global quality control project was introduced to evaluate and monitor the inter-centre variability in measurements with the goal of harmonisation of results. Contexts of use and how to approach candidate biomarkers in biological specimens other than cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), e.g. blood, were precisely defined. Important development was achieved in neuroimaging techniques, including studies comparing amyloid- positron emission tomography results to fluid-based modalities. Similarly, development in research laboratory technologies, such as ultra-sensitive methods, raises our hopes to further improve analytical and diagnostic accuracy of classic and novel candidate biomarkers. Synergistically, advancement in clinical trials of anti-dementia therapies energises and motivates the efforts to find and optimise the most reliable early diagnostic modalities. Finally, the first studies were published addressing the potential of cost-effectiveness of the biomarkers-based diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders.

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