title: Advanced psychometric analysis and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: reports from the 2011 Friday Harbor conference.
abstract: This article summarizes a special series of articles from The Advanced Psychometric Methods in Cognitive Aging Research conference, held in June, 2011 at Friday Harbor, Washington. This conference used data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) to address cognitive change associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and how it related to neuroimaging, genetic, and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers. The 13 articles in this series present innovative approaches to measuring cognition and studying determinants of cognitive decline in AD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA. dmmungas@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mungas
authors.forename: Paul K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Crane
authors.forename: Laura E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Gibbons
authors.forename: Jennifer J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Manly
authors.forename: M Maria
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Glymour
authors.forename: Richard N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D059906:Neuroimaging / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*