Entorhinal cortex dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

KM Igarashi - Trends in neurosciences, 2023 - cell.com
The entorhinal cortex (EC) is the brain region that often exhibits the earliest histological
alterations in Alzheimer's disease (AD), including the formation of neurofibrillary tangles and …

Neuronal hyperexcitability in Alzheimer's disease: what are the drivers behind this aberrant phenotype?

H Targa Dias Anastacio, N Matosin, L Ooi - Translational psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder leading to loss of
cognitive abilities and ultimately, death. With no cure available, limited treatments mostly …

Network abnormalities and interneuron dysfunction in Alzheimer disease

JJ Palop, L Mucke - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
The function of neural circuits and networks can be controlled, in part, by modulating the
synchrony of their components' activities. Network hypersynchrony and altered oscillatory …

Integration of optogenetics with complementary methodologies in systems neuroscience

CK Kim, A Adhikari, K Deisseroth - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Modern optogenetics can be tuned to evoke activity that corresponds to naturally occurring
local or global activity in timing, magnitude or individual-cell patterning. This outcome has …

Rodent models for Alzheimer disease

J Götz, LG Bodea, M Goedert - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Animal models are indispensable tools for Alzheimer disease (AD) research. Over the
course of more than two decades, an increasing number of complementary rodent models …

Optogenetics: 10 years of microbial opsins in neuroscience

K Deisseroth - Nature neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Over the past 10 years, the development and convergence of microbial opsin engineering,
modular genetic methods for cell-type targeting and optical strategies for guiding light …

Gamma entrainment binds higher-order brain regions and offers neuroprotection

C Adaikkan, SJ Middleton, A Marco, PC Pao, H Mathys… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Neuronal and synaptic loss is characteristic in many neurodegenerative diseases, such as
frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Recently, we showed that inducing …

Epileptic activity in Alzheimer's disease: causes and clinical relevance

KA Vossel, MC Tartaglia, HB Nygaard… - The Lancet …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Epileptic activity is frequently associated with Alzheimer's disease; this association has
therapeutic implications, because epileptic activity can occur at early disease stages and …

Modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer's disease

GA Edwards III, N Gamez, G Escobedo Jr… - Frontiers in aging …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Since first described in the early 1900s, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has risen exponentially in
prevalence and concern. Research still drives to understand the etiology and pathogenesis …

CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 ratios: better diagnostic markers of Alzheimer disease

S Janelidze, H Zetterberg, N Mattsson… - Annals of clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for Alzheimer's
disease (AD) must be improved before widespread clinical use. This study aimed to …