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Vol.2, No.3, 73-73 (2013) Advances in Alzheimer ’s Disease http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/aad.2013.23010 Letter to the Editor Lin Shi Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; shilin@cuhk.edu.hk Received 10 June 2013; revised 20 June 2013; accepted 27 July 2013 Copyright © 2013 Lin Shi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distributi on, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Dear Editor Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia. It causes an impact of caregiving on care- givers, on economy of a society, and cost and demand of a health care system. According to the report in 2011 from Alzheimer’s Association, approximately 13 percent of people aged 65 or older have AD in the United States. Study in AD is one of the fastest growing interests in the field of dementia and gerontology. The scientific study of AD has grown rapidly in the last two decades from 2095 publications in 1992 to 4960 in 2002 and 9882 in 2012 by searching the keyword “Alzheimer” in Scopus. The number of publications doubles every decade but the number of journals that focus on AD research and de- mentia is very limited. To meet the fast growing and ad- vanced technologies in pathogenesis, diagnosis and prog- nosis of AD, a comprehensive and periodical platform will satisfy the need to provide unique and updated in- formation in this field. Advances in Alzheimer’s Disease (AAD) is a new quarterly scientific journal to share and discuss new issues, findings and advanced developments in AD. The scopes of AAD include but are not limited to an- imal models, etiology, epidemiology, genetics, patho- genesis, diagnosis, therapeutic development and behave- ioral study of AD. It accepts original articles, short re- ports that present theoretical ideas and book reviews. Our goal is to present high quality of manuscripts and allow easy access for researchers to collect valuable information. In AD research, studies may involve genetic experi- ment, pathogenesis, neurological changes, therapeutics evaluation, medical imaging, biological changes etc. The editorial board is composed of researchers and specialists with a broad range of interests in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Pathology, Neurological Sciences, Medicine, Computer Science, Pharmacy, Biochemistry etc. from different counties and regions over the world. We are committed to the highest quality of scientific research on AD. With a team of members from multidiscipline, our goal is to conduct AD research from different approaches such as in radiology, psychiatry, neurology, computer science and medical engineering. I believe this platform will attract submissions of manuscripts with good stan- dard and quality o f scien tific collections in AD research. Copyright © 2013 SciRes. OPEN ACCESS |