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Louise Robinson, chair1,
Carol Brayne,
Steve Iliffe
for the Primary Care Clinical Studies Group, Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network

¹Primary Care Clinical Studies Group, Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AA

a.l.robinson{at}ncl.ac.uk

Although the test your memory (TYM) test for detecting Alzheimer’s disease is self administered,1 it was given out by clinic staff to referred clinic attendees with comparisons provided for defined clinical subgroups. The people filling in the questionnaires had already seen their general …