The locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system in stress and arousal: unraveling historical, current, and future perspectives

JA Ross, EJ Van Bockstaele - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Arousal may be understood on a spectrum, with excessive sleepiness, cognitive dysfunction,
and inattention on one side, a wakeful state in the middle, and hypervigilance, panic, and …

From exploration to exploitation: A shifting mental mode in late life development

RN Spreng, GR Turner - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Changes in cognition, affect, and brain function combine to promote a shift in the nature of
mentation in older adulthood, favoring exploitation of prior knowledge over exploratory …

Lower novelty-related locus coeruleus function is associated with Aβ-related cognitive decline in clinically healthy individuals

PC Prokopiou, N Engels-Domínguez, KV Papp… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Animal and human imaging research reported that the presence of cortical Alzheimer's
Disease's (AD) neuropathology, beta-amyloid and neurofibrillary tau, is associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Noradrenergic neuromodulation in ageing and disease

F Krohn, E Lancini, M Ludwig, M Leiman… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The locus coeruleus (LC) is a small brainstem structure located in the lower pons and is the
main source of noradrenaline (NA) in the brain. Via its phasic and tonic firing, it modulates …

Novelty‐like activation of locus coeruleus protects against deleterious human pretangle tau effects while stress‐inducing activation worsens its effects

T Omoluabi, SE Torraville, A Maziar… - … Research & Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The earliest abnormality associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the presence of
persistently phosphorylated pretangle tau in locus coeruleus (LC) neurons. LC neuron …

What's that (blue) spot on my MRI? Multimodal neuroimaging of the locus coeruleus in neurodegenerative disease

M Kelberman, S Keilholz, D Weinshenker - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The locus coeruleus (LC) has long been underappreciated for its role in the pathophysiology
of Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and other neurodegenerative …

Disruption of locus coeruleus-related functional networks in Parkinson's disease

J Sun, J Ma, L Gao, J Wang, D Zhang, L Chen… - npj Parkinson's …, 2023 - nature.com
Locus coeruleus (LC) is severely affected in Parkinson's Disease (PD). However, alterations
in LC-related resting-state networks (RSNs) in PD remain unclear. We used resting-state …

Large-scale network connectivity and cognitive function changes after exercise training in older adults with intact cognition and mild cognitive impairment

J Won, KA Nielson, JC Smith - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease …, 2023 - content.iospress.com
Background: Despite growing evidence regarding the association between exercise training
(ET) and functional brain network connectivity, little is known about the effects of ET on large …

Excessive functional coupling with less variability between salience and default mode networks in autism spectrum disorder

YY Chen, M Uljarevic, J Neal, S Greening, H Yim… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Atypical activity in the salience network (SN) and default mode network (DMN)
has been previously reported in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However …

Functional locus coeruleus imaging to investigate an ageing noradrenergic system

M Ludwig, YJ Yi, F Lüsebrink, MF Callaghan… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The locus coeruleus (LC), our main source of norepinephrine (NE) in the brain, declines with
age and is a potential epicentre of protein pathologies in neurodegenerative diseases (ND) …