The National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) Database: The Uniform Data Set

By D. Beekly, E. Ramos, William W. Lee, Woodrow D. Deitrich, M. Jacka, Joylee Wu, Janene L. Hubbard, T. Koepsell, John C. Morris, W. Kukull. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, 2007

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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OASIS-3: Longitudinal Neuroimaging, Clinical, and Cognitive Dataset for Normal Aging and Alzheimer Disease (2019, neutral): “In the Trail Making Test participants were asked to make a trail by connecting a series of numbers (1-26) for part A and connecting a series of alternating numbers and letters (1-A-2-B) for part B.”
Primary age-related tauopathy (PART): a common pathology associated with human aging (2014, background): “A recent analysis of the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) autopsy database [16] found that ~14 % of subjects clinically diagnosed with mild-to-moderate probable AD had no or sparse neuritic plaques [128].”
The Alzheimer’s Disease Centers’ Uniform Data Set (UDS): The Neuropsychological Test Battery (2009, neutral): “Error checks have been built into the system to minimize entry error [15].”
Accuracy of the Clinical Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease at National Institute on Aging Alzheimer's Disease Centers, 2005–2010 (2012, methodology): “The data analyzed in this study have been collected as part of the NACC Uniform Data Set (UDS) since 2005 (31) and thus represent the most current research practices.”
Neuropathology and Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer Disease: A Complex but Coherent Relationship (2009, methodology): “It may be best to use a comprehensive battery of cognitive and functional tests such as those used currently in the Uniform Data Set by Alzheimer’s Disease Centers (100).”
Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer’s disease (2013, methodology): “The ADC cohort consists of 2,288 autopsy-confirmed and 913 clinically-confirmed AD cases, and 519 cognitively normal elders (CNEs) with complete neuropathology data who were older than 60 years at age of death, and 744 living CNEs evaluated using the Uniform dataset (UDS) protocol [2, 3] who were do”