A public-private partnership, the purpose of ADNI [2] is to develop a multisite, longitudinal, prospective, naturalistic study of normal cognitive aging, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and early Alzheimer's disease as a public domain research resource to facilitate the scientific evaluation of neuroimaging and other biomarkers for the onset and progression of MCI and Alzheimer's disease.

Dr. Laurie Ryan of the NIA gives a brief overview of ADNI [3] in this video: