The use of neuroimaging techniques in the early and differential diagnosis of dementia

L Chouliaras, JT O'Brien - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Dementia is a leading cause of disability and death worldwide. At present there is no
disease modifying treatment for any of the most common types of dementia such as …

Brain fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET in dementia

T Kato, Y Inui, A Nakamura, K Ito - Ageing research reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The purpose of this article is to present a selective and concise summary of
fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) in dementia imaging. FDG …

Long COVID hallmarks on [18F] FDG-PET/CT: a case-control study

M Sollini, S Morbelli, M Ciccarelli, M Cecconi… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose The present study hypothesised that whole-body [18F] FDG-PET/CT might provide
insight into the pathophysiology of long COVID. Methods We prospectively enrolled 13 adult …

The impact of bilingualism on brain reserve and metabolic connectivity in Alzheimer's dementia

D Perani, M Farsad, T Ballarini… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Cognitive reserve (CR) prevents cognitive decline and delays neurodegeneration. Recent
epidemiological evidence suggests that lifelong bilingualism may act as CR delaying the …

Neuroimaging and machine learning for dementia diagnosis: recent advancements and future prospects

MR Ahmed, Y Zhang, Z Feng, B Lo… - IEEE reviews in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dementia, a chronic and progressive cognitive declination of brain function caused by
disease or impairment, is becoming more prevalent due to the aging population. A major …

Time-dependent recovery of brain hypometabolism in neuro-COVID-19 patients

AL Martini, G Carli, L Kiferle, P Piersanti… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose We evaluated brain metabolic dysfunctions and associations with neurological and
biological parameters in acute, subacute and chronic COVID-19 phases to provide deeper …

Network degeneration in Parkinson's disease: multimodal imaging of nigro-striato-cortical dysfunction

MC Ruppert, A Greuel, M Tahmasian, F Schwartz… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The spreading hypothesis of neurodegeneration assumes an expansion of neural
pathologies along existing neural pathways. Multimodal neuroimaging studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of an optimized SPM procedure for FDG-PET in dementia diagnosis in a clinical setting

D Perani, PA Della Rosa, C Cerami, F Gallivanone… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2014 - Elsevier
Diagnostic accuracy in FDG-PET imaging highly depends on the operating procedures. In
this clinical study on dementia, we compared the diagnostic accuracy at a single-subject …

[HTML][HTML] FDG-PET and CSF biomarker accuracy in prediction of conversion to different dementias in a large multicentre MCI cohort

SP Caminiti, T Ballarini, A Sala, C Cerami, L Presotto… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 - Elsevier
Background/aims In this multicentre study in clinical settings, we assessed the accuracy of
optimized procedures for FDG-PET brain metabolism and CSF classifications in predicting …