Biological factors influencing depression in later life: role of aging processes and treatment implications

SM Szymkowicz, AR Gerlach, D Homiack… - Translational …, 2023 - nature.com
Late-life depression occurring in older adults is common, recurrent, and malignant. It is
characterized by affective symptoms, but also cognitive decline, medical comorbidity, and …

Depressive symptoms in cognitively unimpaired older adults are associated with lower structural and functional integrity in a frontolimbic network

E Touron, I Moulinet, E Kuhn, S Sherif, V Ourry… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Subclinical depressive symptoms are associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's disease
(AD), but the brain mechanisms underlying this relationship are still unclear. We aimed to …

Mild behavioral impairment and its relation to tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

M Johansson, E Stomrud, PS Insel, A Leuzy… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Mild behavioral impairment (MBI) is suggested as risk marker for neurodegenerative
diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recently, pathologic tau deposition in the brain …

Depression in Alzheimer's disease: epidemiology, mechanisms, and treatment

YY Huang, YH Gan, L Yang, W Cheng, JT Yu - Biological Psychiatry, 2024 - Elsevier
Depression and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are substantial public health concerns. In the past
decades, a link between the 2 disease entities has received extensive acknowledgment, yet …

Stress, depression, and risk of dementia–a cohort study in the total population between 18 and 65 years old in Region Stockholm

J Wallensten, G Ljunggren, A Nager, C Wachtler… - Alzheimer's Research & …, 2023 - Springer
Background Chronic stress and depression are potential risk factors for mild cognitive
impairment and dementia, including Alzheimer disease. The aim was to investigate whether …

The physio-affective phenome of major depression is strongly associated with biomarkers of astroglial and neuronal projection toxicity which in turn are associated …

HK Al-Hakeim, TH Al-Naqeeb, AF Almulla… - Journal of affective …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by elevated activity of
peripheral neuro-immune and neuro-oxidative pathways, which may cause neuro-affective …

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 …

Personality associations with amyloid and tau: Results from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging and meta-analysis

A Terracciano, M Bilgel, D Aschwanden, M Luchetti… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Higher neuroticism and lower conscientiousness are risk factors for Alzheimer's
disease and related dementias, but the underlying neuropathological correlates remain …

Tau-PET in early cortical Alzheimer brain regions in relation to mild behavioral impairment in older adults with either normal cognition or mild cognitive impairment

J Naude, M Wang, R Leon, E Smith, Z Ismail - Neurobiology of Aging, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Mild Behavioral Impairment (MBI) leverages later-life emergent and persistent
neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) to identify a high-risk group for incident dementia …

The complex relationship between depression and progression to incident cognitive impairment across race and ethnicity

GM Babulal, Y Zhu, CM Roe, DL Hudson… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction We examined baseline differences in depression and antidepressant use
among cognitively normal older adults in five ethnoracial groups and assessed whether …