About the Authors
- A. David Smith
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Contributed equally to this work with: A. David Smith, Helga Refsum
* E-mail: david.smith@pharm.ox.ac.uk
Affiliations Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, University Department of Pharmacology and Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Stephen M. Smith
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Neurology, Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Celeste A. de Jager
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Affiliation Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Philippa Whitbread
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Affiliation Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Carole Johnston
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Affiliations Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, University Department of Pharmacology and Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Grzegorz Agacinski
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Affiliation Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Abderrahim Oulhaj
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Affiliation Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Kevin M. Bradley
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Affiliation Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Robin Jacoby
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Affiliation University Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Helga Refsum
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Contributed equally to this work with: A. David Smith, Helga Refsum
Affiliations Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, University Department of Pharmacology and Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Competing Interests
Dr. A. D. Smith is named as an inventor on two patents held by the University of Oxford on the use of folic acid to treat Alzheimer's disease (US6008221; US6127370); under the University's rules he could benefit financially if the patent is exploited. Drs. Refsum and A. D. Smith report having in the past received speaking honoraria from Recip AB, the company that donated the vitamin tablets, and from Axis-Shield, who make the equipment used to assay homocysteine. These competing interests do not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. None of the other authors have any financial disclosures.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ADS CAdJ KMB RJ HR. Performed the experiments: SMS CAdJ PW CJ KMB RJ. Analyzed the data: ADS SMS CAdJ PW CJ GA AO HR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJ GA AO KMB RJ. Wrote the paper: ADS HR. Critically reviewed the manuscript: ADS SMS CAdJ PW CJ GA KMB RJ HR. Critically reviewed the manuscript, notably the statistics: AO.