Alzheimer's disease

P Scheltens, K Blennow, MMB Breteler, B De Strooper… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Although the prevalence of dementia continues to increase worldwide, incidence in the
western world might have decreased as a result of better vascular care and improved brain …

Defeating Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: a priority for European science and society

B Winblad, P Amouyel, S Andrieu, C Ballard… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, and
because the primary risk factor for AD is old age, the prevalence of the disease is increasing …

Tau PET patterns mirror clinical and neuroanatomical variability in Alzheimer's disease

R Ossenkoppele, DR Schonhaut, M Schöll… - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
See Sarazin et al.(doi: 10.1093/brain/aww041) for a scientific commentary on this article.
The advent of the positron emission tomography tracer 18 F-AV1451 provides the unique …

Impairments of neural circuit function in Alzheimer's disease

MA Busche, A Konnerth - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
An essential feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ)
peptides in the brain, many years to decades before the onset of overt cognitive symptoms …

Amyloid negativity in patients with clinically diagnosed Alzheimer disease and MCI

SM Landau, A Horng, A Fero, WJ Jagust… - Neurology, 2016 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To examine the clinical and biomarker characteristics of patients with amyloid-
negative Alzheimer disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from the Alzheimer's …

Cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer's disease biomarkers across the spectrum of Lewy body diseases: results from a large multicenter cohort

I Van Steenoven, D Aarsland… - Journal of …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Background: Concomitant Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is observed in Lewy body
diseases (LBD), but the clinical impact is unknown. Only a few biomarker studies in LBD …

Assessment of the incremental diagnostic value of florbetapir F 18 imaging in patients with cognitive impairment: the incremental diagnostic value of amyloid PET with …

M Boccardi, D Altomare, C Ferrari, C Festari… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Cerebral amyloidosis is a key abnormality in Alzheimer disease (AD) and can be
detected in vivo with positron emission tomography (PET) ligands. Although amyloid PET …

Propagation of Aß pathology: hypotheses, discoveries, and yet unresolved questions from experimental and human brain studies

YS Eisele, C Duyckaerts - Acta neuropathologica, 2016 - Springer
In brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), Aβ peptides accumulate in parenchyma
and, almost invariably, also in the vascular walls. Although Aβ aggregation is, by definition …

Atrophy, hypometabolism and clinical trajectories in patients with amyloid-negative Alzheimer's disease

G Chételat, R Ossenkoppele, VL Villemagne… - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract See O'Sullivan and Vann (doi: 10.1093/aww166) for a scientific commentary on this
article. About 15% of patients clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease do not show …

Accelerated decline in white matter integrity in clinically normal individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease

A Rieckmann, KRA Van Dijk, RA Sperling… - Neurobiology of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Prior studies have identified white matter abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Yet,
cross-sectional studies in normal older individuals show little evidence for an association …