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wellbeing, but also mental and cognitive health and ments to ensure good representations of the entire
therefore on the incidence of dementia in the el- population - must be incorporated in future neuro-
derly population. Thus, the analysis of risk factors re- biological and neuropathological investigations in
lated to the symptoms of dementia must be dementia. The results of small clinical-based sam-
accompanied by a comprehensive phenotypic ples, which include only patients from memory cli-
characterization in order to provide a better un- nics or other medical services, have inherently
derstanding of the underlying neurobiological me- limited generalization and the considerable poten-
chanisms. tial for bias due to highly selective recruitment. In
particular, people who are socially disadvantaged
The concept of population studies - that is, the re- are less likely to participate in that research. The in-
cruitment of participants from community environ- tegration of neuroscience with population studies
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