State-of-the-art of lumbar puncture and its place in the journey of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Address: Eisai Inc., Neurology Business Group, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, USA.; Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.; USC Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute, San Diego, California, USA.; Memory Aging and Cognition Centre, Departments of Pharmacology and Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.; Sant Pau Memory Unit, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau-Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.; Department of Neuropathology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.; Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital, 35-2 Sakaecho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan.; Department of Neurology and Neurobiology of Aging, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan.; Department of Molecular Genetics, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Asahimachi, Niigata, Japan.; Innovation Center for Neurological Disorders, Department of Neurology, Xuan Wu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.; Dementia Care and Research Center, Peking University Institute of Mental Health (Sixth Hospital), Beijing Dementia Key Lab, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Beijing, China.; Neurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA.; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden.; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.