Challenges and hopes for Alzheimer's disease

SA Tatulian - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent drug development efforts targeting Alzheimer's disease (AD) have failed to produce
effective disease-modifying agents for many reasons, including the substantial …

Brain energy rescue: an emerging therapeutic concept for neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

SC Cunnane, E Trushina, C Morland… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
The brain requires a continuous supply of energy in the form of ATP, most of which is
produced from glucose by oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria, complemented by …

Forty-hertz light stimulation does not entrain native gamma oscillations in Alzheimer's disease model mice

M Soula, A Martín-Ávila, Y Zhang, A Dhingra… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There is a demand for noninvasive methods to ameliorate disease. We investigated whether
40-Hz flickering light entrains gamma oscillations and suppresses amyloid-β in the brains of …

The glymphatic system: a novel component of fundamental neurobiology

LM Hablitz, M Nedergaard - Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Throughout the body, lymphatic fluid movement supports critical functions including
clearance of excess fluid and metabolic waste. The glymphatic system is the analog of the …

A new unifying account of the roles of neuronal entrainment

P Lakatos, J Gross, G Thut - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Rhythms are a fundamental and defining feature of neuronal activity in animals including
humans. This rhythmic brain activity interacts in complex ways with rhythms in the internal …

[HTML][HTML] Gamma frequency sensory stimulation in mild probable Alzheimer's dementia patients: Results of feasibility and pilot studies

D Chan, HJ Suk, BL Jackson, NP Milman, D Stark… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Non-invasive Gamma ENtrainment Using Sensory stimulation (GENUS) at 40Hz reduces
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology such as amyloid and tau levels, prevents cerebral …

Multisensory gamma stimulation promotes glymphatic clearance of amyloid

MH Murdock, CY Yang, N Sun, PC Pao… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The glymphatic movement of fluid through the brain removes metabolic waste,,–.
Noninvasive 40 Hz stimulation promotes 40 Hz neural activity in multiple brain regions and …

New insights into the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

L Fan, C Mao, X Hu, S Zhang, Z Yang, Z Hu… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a common neurodegenerative disease in the elderly and the most
prevalent cause of dementia, is characterized by progressive cognitive impairment. The …

Optimal deep brain stimulation sites and networks for stimulation of the fornix in Alzheimer's disease

AS Ríos, S Oxenford, C Neudorfer, K Butenko… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) to the fornix is an investigational treatment for patients with
mild Alzheimer's Disease. Outcomes from randomized clinical trials have shown that …

[HTML][HTML] How can hearing loss cause dementia?

TD Griffiths, M Lad, S Kumar, E Holmes, B McMurray… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Epidemiological studies identify midlife hearing loss as an independent risk factor for
dementia, estimated to account for 9% of cases. We evaluate candidate brain bases for this …