Timing of lifespan influences on brain and cognition

KB Walhovd, M Lövden, AM Fjell - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Modifiable risk and protective factors for boosting brain and cognitive development and
preventing neurodegeneration and cognitive decline are embraced in neuroimaging …

Individual variations in 'brain age'relate to early-life factors more than to longitudinal brain change

D Vidal-Pineiro, Y Wang, SK Krogsrud, IK Amlien… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Brain age is a widely used index for quantifying individuals' brain health as deviation from a
normative brain aging trajectory. Higher-than-expected brain age is thought partially to …

Identifying individuals with high risk of Alzheimer's disease using polygenic risk scores

G Leonenko, E Baker, J Stevenson-Hoare… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) for AD offer unique possibilities for reliable
identification of individuals at high and low risk of AD. However, there is little agreement in …

Impact of genetic predisposition to late-onset neurodegenerative diseases on early life outcomes and brain structure

NS Ogonowski, LM García-Marín, AS Fernando… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
Most patients with late-onset neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and
Parkinson's have a complex aetiology resulting from numerous genetic risk variants of small …

[HTML][HTML] A recipe for accurate estimation of lifespan brain trajectories, distinguishing longitudinal and cohort effects

Ø Sørensen, KB Walhovd, AM Fjell - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
We address the problem of estimating how different parts of the brain develop and change
throughout the lifespan, and how these trajectories are affected by genetic and …

Polygenic risk score for Alzheimer's disease in Caribbean Hispanics

S Sariya, D Felsky, D Reyes‐Dumeyer… - Annals of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) assess the individual genetic propensity to a
condition by combining sparse information scattered across genetic loci, often displaying …

Proof-of-concept recall-by-genotype study of extremely low and high Alzheimer's polygenic risk reveals autobiographical deficits and cingulate cortex correlates

T Lancaster, B Creese, V Escott-Price, I Driver… - Alzheimer's Research & …, 2023 - Springer
Background Genome-wide association studies demonstrate that Alzheimer's disease (AD)
has a highly polygenic architecture, where thousands of independent genetic variants …

Serum cortisol is negatively related to hippocampal volume, brain structure, and memory performance in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease

J Dronse, A Ohndorf, N Richter, GN Bischof… - Frontiers in aging …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Objective Elevated cortisol levels have been frequently reported in Alzheimer's disease (AD)
and linked to brain atrophy, especially of the hippocampus. Besides, high cortisol levels …

Cognitive and hippocampal changes weeks and years after memory training

ACS Bråthen, Ø Sørensen, AMG De Lange… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
While immediate effects of memory-training are widely reported in young and older adults,
less is known regarding training-dependent hippocampal plasticity across multiple …

[HTML][HTML] Associations of circulating C-reactive proteins, APOE ε4, and brain markers for Alzheimer's disease in healthy samples across the lifespan

Y Wang, H Grydeland, JM Roe, M Pan… - Brain, Behavior, and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The apolipoprotein E gene ε4 allele (APOE ε4) and higher circulating level of C-reactive
protein (CRP) have been extensively investigated as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease …