About the Authors

Brandon E. Gavett

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America

Ashita S. Gurnani

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America

Jessica L. Saurman

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America

Kimberly R. Chapman

Affiliation Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric G. Steinberg

Affiliation Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brett Martin

Affiliation Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christine E. Chaisson

Affiliation Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jesse Mez

Affiliation Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yorghos Tripodis

Affiliation Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert A. Stern

bobstern@bu.edu

Affiliation Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

BEG has received compensation for expert opinion. RAS has received research funding from Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA, USA). He is a member of the Mackey-White Committee of the NFL Players Association. He is a paid consultant to Amarantus BioScience Holdings, Inc. (San Francisco, CA, USA), Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Aliso Viejo, CA), and Biogen (Cambridge, MA). He receives royalties for published neuropsychological tests (including the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery) from Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc. (Lutz, FL, USA), as well as compensation from expert legal opinion. All of the other authors declare that they have no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BEG RAS. Data curation: BEG KRC EGS BM CEC JM YT RAS. Formal analysis: BEG. Funding acquisition: CEC RAS. Investigation: KRC EGS. Methodology: BEG JM YT RAS. Project administration: CEC RAS. Resources: BEG CEC YT RAS. Supervision: BEG EGS CEC JM YT RAS. Validation: BEG CEC JM YT RAS. Visualization: BEG. Writing – original draft: BEG ASG JLS KRC. Writing – review & editing: BEG ASG JLS KRC EGS BM CEC JM YT RAS.