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Anxiety: An early indicator of Alzheimer's disease?

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The findings support the hypothesis that neuropsychiatric symptoms could represent the early manifestation of Alzheimer's disease in older adults, and suggest depression and other neuropsychiatric symptoms may be predictors of AD's progression during its "preclinical" phase.

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