Gabriel A de Erausquin1, Heather Snyder2, María Carrillo2, Akram A Hosseini3, Traolach S Brugha4, Sudha Seshadri1. 1. The Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, UTHSA, San Antonio, Texas, USA. 2. Alzheimer's Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 3. Neurology Department, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. 4. Social and Epidemiological Psychiatry Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The increasing evidence of SARS-CoV-2 impact on the central nervous system (CNS) raises key questions on its impact for risk of later life cognitive decline, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and other dementia. METHODS: The Alzheimer's Association and representatives from more than 30 countries-with technical guidance from the World Health Organization-have formed an international consortium to study the short-and long-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2 on the CNS-including the underlying biology that may contribute to AD and other dementias. This consortium will link teams from around the world covering more than 22 million COVID-19 cases to enroll two groups of individuals including people with disease, to be evaluated for follow-up evaluations at 6, 9, and 18 months, and people who are already enrolled in existing international research studies to add additional measures and markers of their underlying biology. CONCLUSIONS: The increasing evidence and understanding of SARS-CoV-2's impact on the CNS raises key questions on the impact for risk of later life cognitive decline, AD, and other dementia. This program of studies aims to better understand the long-term consequences that may impact the brain, cognition, and functioning-including the underlying biology that may contribute to AD and other dementias.
INTRODUCTION: The increasing evidence of SARS-CoV-2 impact on the central nervous system (CNS) raises key questions on its impact for risk of later life cognitive decline, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and other dementia. METHODS: The Alzheimer's Association and representatives from more than 30 countries-with technical guidance from the World Health Organization-have formed an international consortium to study the short-and long-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2 on the CNS-including the underlying biology that may contribute to AD and other dementias. This consortium will link teams from around the world covering more than 22 million COVID-19 cases to enroll two groups of individuals including people with disease, to be evaluated for follow-up evaluations at 6, 9, and 18 months, and people who are already enrolled in existing international research studies to add additional measures and markers of their underlying biology. CONCLUSIONS: The increasing evidence and understanding of SARS-CoV-2's impact on the CNS raises key questions on the impact for risk of later life cognitive decline, AD, and other dementia. This program of studies aims to better understand the long-term consequences that may impact the brain, cognition, and functioning-including the underlying biology that may contribute to AD and other dementias.
Authors: Gwenaëlle Douaud; Soojin Lee; Fidel Alfaro-Almagro; Christoph Arthofer; Chaoyue Wang; Paul McCarthy; Frederik Lange; Jesper L R Andersson; Ludovica Griffanti; Eugene Duff; Saad Jbabdi; Bernd Taschler; Peter Keating; Anderson M Winkler; Rory Collins; Paul M Matthews; Naomi Allen; Karla L Miller; Thomas E Nichols; Stephen M Smith Journal: Nature Date: 2022-03-07 Impact factor: 69.504