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The Working Group participants included:

• M. Ball, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
• H. Braak, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
• P. Coleman, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
• D. Dickson, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
• C. Duyckaerts, Hopital De La Salpetriere, Paris, France
• P. Gambetti, University Hospital of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
• L. Hansen, University of San Diego, La Jolla, CA
• B. Hyman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
• K. Jellinger, Ludwig Boltzman Institute, Vienna, Austria
• W. Markesbery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
• D. Perl, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
• J. Powers, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
• J. Price, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
• J.Q. Trojanowski, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
• H. Wisniewski, Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, NY.

C. Phelps and Z. Khachaturian represented the National Institute on Aging and the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute of the Alzheimer's Association, respectively. The meeting was chaired by J.Q. Trojanowski on Nov. 13-14, 1996 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, and B. Hyman and J.Q. Trojanowski co-chaired and led the concluding deliberations to formulate the consensus criteria summarized here.