49:, Berg studied at Washington University, earning both his undergraduate and medical degrees there. He became an assistant professor of clinical neurology there in 1956, and also maintained a private practice from 1972 to 1989. He became a professor of neurology and from 1985 to 1998 directed Washington's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. In 1985, he was also named president of the
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Hughes, CP; Berg, L; Danziger, WL; Coben, LA; Martin, RL (1982). "A new clinical scale for the staging of dementia".
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