Alzheimer's Prevention Initiative: a plan to accelerate the evaluation of presymptomatic treatments

EM Reiman, J Langbaum, AS Fleisher… - Journal of …, 2011 - content.iospress.com
There is an urgent need to find effective presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease (AD)
treatments that reduce the risk of AD symptoms or prevent them completely. It currently takes …

Genetic dissection of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: amyloid and its relationship to tau

J Hardy, K Duff, KG Hardy, J Perez-Tur… - Nature neuroscience, 1998 - nature.com
Molecular genetic analysis is revealing the etiologies of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and
related dementias. Here we review genetic and molecular biological evidence suggesting …

Early-onset autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease: prevalence, genetic heterogeneity, and mutation spectrum

D Campion, C Dumanchin, D Hannequin… - The American Journal of …, 1999 - cell.com
To determine the prevalence of early-onset Alzheimer disease (EOAD) and of autosomal
dominant forms of EOAD (ADEOAD), we performed a population-based study in the city of …

Plasma neurofilament light chain in the presenilin 1 E280A autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease kindred: a cross-sectional and longitudinal cohort study

YT Quiroz, H Zetterberg, EM Reiman, Y Chen… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a promising biomarker of active
axonal injury and neuronal degeneration. We aimed to characterise cross-sectional and …

Visual short-term memory binding deficits in familial Alzheimer's disease

MA Parra, S Abrahams, RH Logie, LG Méndez… - Brain, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Short-term memory binding is a memory function that underpins the temporary retention of
complex objects (eg shapes with colours). In the verbal domain, this function has been found …

Amyloid-β and tau pathologies relate to distinctive brain dysconnectomics in preclinical autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease

E Guzmán-Vélez, I Diez… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The human brain is composed of functional networks that have a modular topology, where
brain regions are organized into communities that form internally dense (segregated) and …

Pre-dementia clinical stages in presenilin 1 E280A familial early-onset Alzheimer's disease: a retrospective cohort study

N Acosta-Baena, D Sepulveda-Falla… - The Lancet …, 2011 - thelancet.com
Background Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and pre-MCI have been proposed as stages
preceding Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia. We assessed descendants of individuals …

Effect of apolipoprotein genotype and educational attainment on cognitive function in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

S Langella, NG Barksdale, D Vasquez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD) is genetically determined, but variability in
age of symptom onset suggests additional factors may influence cognitive trajectories …

Hippocampal hyperactivation in presymptomatic familial Alzheimer's disease

YT Quiroz, AE Budson, K Celone, A Ruiz… - Annals of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The examination of individuals who carry fully penetrant genetic alterations that
result in familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) provides a unique model for studying the early …

Genetics of population isolates

M Arcos‐Burgos, M Muenke - Clinical genetics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic isolates, as shown empirically by the Finnish, Old Order Amish, Hutterites, Sardinian
and Jewish communities among others, represent a most important and powerful tool in …