Clinical neurology and epidemiology of the major neurodegenerative diseases

MG Erkkinen, MO Kim… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2018 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Neurodegenerative diseases are a common cause of morbidity and cognitive impairment in
older adults. Most clinicians who care for the elderly are not trained to diagnose these …

Current progress, challenges and future prospects of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in Alzheimer's disease

K Rajasekhar, T Govindaraju - RSC advances, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent, progressive and multifaceted
neurodegenerative disorder associated with cognition, memory and behavioural …

High performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

A Nakamura, N Kaneko, VL Villemagne, T Kato… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
To facilitate clinical trials of disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer's disease, which are
expected to be most efficacious at the earliest and mildest stages of the disease,, supportive …

Association of preclinical Alzheimer disease with optical coherence tomographic angiography findings

BE O'Bryhim, RS Apte, N Kung, D Coble… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Biomarker testing for asymptomatic, preclinical Alzheimer disease (AD) is
invasive and expensive. Optical coherence tomographic angiography (OCTA) is a …

In vivo quantification of neurofibrillary tangles with [18F]MK-6240

TA Pascoal, M Shin, MS Kang, M Chamoun… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2018 - Springer
Background Imaging agents capable of quantifying the brain's tau aggregates will allow a
more precise staging of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The aim of the present study was to …

Standardization of amyloid quantitation with florbetapir standardized uptake value ratios to the Centiloid scale

M Navitsky, AD Joshi, I Kennedy… - Alzheimer's & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Klunk et al. recently proposed a means of standardizing quantitation of amyloid
burden from positron emission tomography scans to a common Centiloid scale, and we …

Regional amyloid accumulation and cognitive decline in initially amyloid-negative adults

ME Farrell, X Chen, MM Rundle, MY Chan, GS Wig… - Neurology, 2018 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To assess whether global or regional changes in amyloid burden over 4 years
predict early declines in episodic memory in initially amyloid-negative adults. Methods One …

Association of β-amyloid and apolipoprotein E ε4 with memory decline in preclinical Alzheimer disease

YY Lim, P Kalinowski, RH Pietrzak, SM Laws… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Older age, high levels of β-amyloid (Aβ), and the presence of the apolipoprotein
E (APOE) ε4 allele are risk factors for Alzheimer disease (AD). However, the extent to which …

[HTML][HTML] Utilizing the Centiloid scale in cross-sectional and longitudinal PiB PET studies

Y Su, S Flores, RC Hornbeck, B Speidel… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 - Elsevier
Amyloid imaging is a valuable tool for research and diagnosis in dementing disorders.
Successful use of this tool is limited by the lack of a common standard in the quantification of …

Flortaucipir F 18 quantitation using parametric estimation of reference signal intensity

S Southekal, MD Devous, I Kennedy… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET imaging of tau pathology in Alzheimer disease may benefit from the use of white matter
reference regions. These regions have shown reduced variability compared with …