Hallmarks of brain aging: adaptive and pathological modification by metabolic states

MP Mattson, TV Arumugam - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
During aging, the cellular milieu of the brain exhibits tell-tale signs of compromised
bioenergetics, impaired adaptive neuroplasticity and resilience, aberrant neuronal network …

Locus coeruleus imaging as a biomarker for noradrenergic dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases

MJ Betts, E Kirilina, MCG Otaduy, D Ivanov… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Pathological alterations to the locus coeruleus, the major source of noradrenaline in the
brain, are histologically evident in early stages of neurodegenerative diseases. Novel MRI …

Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions

J Veríssimo, P Verhaeghen, N Goldman… - Nature Human …, 2022 - nature.com
Many but not all cognitive abilities decline during ageing. Some even improve due to lifelong
experience. The critical capacities of attention and executive functions have been widely …

Neural dedifferentiation in the aging brain

JD Koen, MD Rugg - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Many cognitive abilities decline with age even in the absence of detectable pathology.
Recent evidence indicates that age-related neural dedifferentiation, operationalized in terms …

Dopamine neuronal loss contributes to memory and reward dysfunction in a model of Alzheimer's disease

A Nobili, EC Latagliata, MT Viscomi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Alterations of the dopaminergic (DAergic) system are frequently reported in Alzheimer's
disease (AD) patients and are commonly linked to cognitive and non-cognitive symptoms …

Norepinephrine ignites local hotspots of neuronal excitation: How arousal amplifies selectivity in perception and memory

M Mather, D Clewett, M Sakaki… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Emotional arousal enhances perception and memory of high-priority information but impairs
processing of other information. Here, we propose that, under arousal, local glutamate levels …

Models of sustained attention

M Esterman, D Rothlein - Current opinion in psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Numerous neurocognitive factors contribute to sustained attention.•Attention
fluctuates alongside shifting arousal, effort, and resource allocation.•An information …

Scalable production of iPSC-derived human neurons to identify tau-lowering compounds by high-content screening

C Wang, ME Ward, R Chen, K Liu, TE Tracy, X Chen… - Stem cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Lowering total tau levels is an attractive therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease and
other tauopathies. High-throughput screening in neurons derived from human induced …

Declining locus coeruleus–dopaminergic and noradrenergic modulation of long-term memory in aging and Alzheimer's disease

MJ Dahl, A Kulesza, M Werkle-Bergner… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Memory is essential in defining our identity by guiding behavior based on past experiences.
However, aging leads to declining memory, disrupting older adult's lives. Memories are …

The mechanistic link between selective vulnerability of the locus coeruleus and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

BJ Matchett, LT Grinberg, P Theofilas, ME Murray - Acta neuropathologica, 2021 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is neuropathologically characterized by the intracellular
accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau and the extracellular deposition of amyloid-β …