Alzheimer's disease: past, present, and future

MW Bondi, EC Edmonds, DP Salmon - Journal of the International …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Although dementia has been described in ancient texts over many centuries (eg,“Be kind to
your father, even if his mind fail him.”–Old Testament: Sirach 3: 12), our knowledge of its …

Brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease and aging

L Pini, M Pievani, M Bocchetta, D Altomare… - Ageing research …, 2016 - Elsevier
Thanks to its safety and accessibility, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is extensively used
in clinical routine and research field, largely contributing to our understanding of the …

Thalamic pathology and memory loss in early Alzheimer's disease: moving the focus from the medial temporal lobe to Papez circuit

JP Aggleton, A Pralus, AJD Nelson, M Hornberger - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
It is widely assumed that incipient protein pathology in the medial temporal lobe instigates
the loss of episodic memory in Alzheimer's disease, one of the earliest cognitive deficits in …

Brain connectivity in neurodegenerative diseases—from phenotype to proteinopathy

M Pievani, N Filippini, MP Van Den Heuvel… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Functional and structural connectivity measures, as assessed by means of functional and
diffusion MRI, are emerging as potential intermediate biomarkers for Alzheimer disease (AD) …

[HTML][HTML] Aberrant lipid metabolism in the forebrain niche suppresses adult neural stem cell proliferation in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease

LK Hamilton, M Dufresne, SE Joppé, S Petryszyn… - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Lipid metabolism is fundamental for brain development and function, but its roles in normal
and pathological neural stem cell (NSC) regulation remain largely unexplored. Here, we …

Diverging longitudinal changes in astrocytosis and amyloid PET in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

E Rodriguez-Vieitez, L Saint-Aubert, SF Carter… - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract See Schott and Fox (doi: 10.1093/brain/awv405) for a scientific commentary on this
article. Alzheimer's disease is a multifactorial dementia disorder characterized by early …

[HTML][HTML] Application of neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) to a tau pathology model of Alzheimer's disease

N Colgan, B Siow, JM O'Callaghan, IF Harrison… - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
Increased hyperphosphorylated tau and the formation of intracellular neurofibrillary tangles
are associated with the loss of neurons and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease, and …

Brain imaging of neurovascular dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

A Montagne, DA Nation, J Pa, MD Sweeney… - Acta …, 2016 - Springer
Neurovascular dysfunction, including blood–brain barrier (BBB) breakdown and cerebral
blood flow (CBF) dysregulation and reduction, are increasingly recognized to contribute to …

White matter diffusion alterations precede symptom onset in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

MÁ Araque Caballero, M Suárez-Calvet, M Duering… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
White matter alterations are present in the majority of patients with Alzheimer's disease type
dementia. However, the spatiotemporal pattern of white matter changes preceding dementia …

Diffusion imaging changes in grey matter in Alzheimer's disease: a potential marker of early neurodegeneration

PSJ Weston, IJA Simpson, NS Ryan, S Ourselin… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2015 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is recognized to have a long presymptomatic period, during which
there is progressive accumulation of molecular pathology, followed by inexorable neuronal …