Touchscreen cognitive testing: Cross-species translation and co-clinical trials in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disease

D Palmer, JR Dumont, TD Dexter, MAM Prado… - … of Learning and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Translating results from pre-clinical animal studies to successful human clinical trials in
neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disease presents a significant challenge. While …

Brain cellular senescence in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

AO Dorigatti, R Riordan, Z Yu, G Ross, R Wang… - Geroscience, 2022 - Springer
The accumulation of senescent cells contributes to aging pathologies, including
neurodegenerative diseases, and its selective removal improves physiological and cognitive …

Characterization of apathy-like behaviors in the 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

R Keszycki, G Rodriguez, JT Dunn, A Locci… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Most patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) develop neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS)
alongside cognitive decline, and apathy is one of the most common symptoms. Few …

Using touchscreen-delivered cognitive assessments to address the principles of the 3Rs in behavioral sciences

L Lopez-Cruz, TJ Bussey, LM Saksida, CJ Heath - Lab animal, 2021 - nature.com
Despite considerable advances in both in silico and in vitro approaches, in vivo studies that
involve animal model systems remain necessary in many research disciplines …

A preclinical model of computerized cognitive training: touchscreen cognitive testing enhances cognition and hippocampal cellular plasticity in wildtype and …

A Shepherd, T Zhang, LB Hoffmann… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
With the growing popularity of touchscreen cognitive testing in rodents, it is imperative to
understand the fundamental effects exposure to this paradigm can have on the animals …

Evaluation of attention in APP/PS1 mice shows impulsive and compulsive behaviours

A Shepherd, C May, L Churilov… - Genes, Brain and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While Alzheimer's disease (AD) is traditionally associated with deficits in episodic memory,
early changes in other cognitive domains, such as attention, have been gaining interest. In …

Immunotherapy to improve cognition and reduce pathological species in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

K Herline, F Prelli, P Mehta, C MacMurray… - Alzheimer's Research & …, 2018 - Springer
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by physiologically endogenous
proteins amyloid beta (Aβ) and tau undergoing a conformational change and accumulating …

[HTML][HTML] Early memory deficits and extensive brain network disorganization in the AppNL-F/MAPT double knock-in mouse model of familial Alzheimer's disease

C Borcuk, C Héraud, K Herbeaux, M Diringer, É Panzer… - Aging Brain, 2022 - Elsevier
A critical challenge in current research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) is to clarify the
relationship between network dysfunction and the emergence of subtle memory deficits in …

Loss-of-function and gain-of-function studies refute the hypothesis that tau protein is causally involved in the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease

I Mees, S Li, LC Beauchamp… - Human Molecular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Tubulin-associated unit (Tau) is a microtubule-associated protein, whose abnormal
phosphorylation and deposition in the brain characterizes a range of neurodegenerative …

Promoting and optimizing the use of 3D-printed objects in spontaneous recognition memory tasks in rodents: a method for improving rigor and reproducibility

M Inayat, A Cruz-Sanchez, HHA Thorpe, JA Frie… - Eneuro, 2021 - eneuro.org
Spontaneous recognition memory tasks are widely used to assess cognitive function in
rodents and have become commonplace in the characterization of rodent models of …