Circadian rhythms in neurodegenerative disorders

M Nassan, A Videnovic - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
Endogenous biological clocks, orchestrated by the suprachiasmatic nucleus, time the
circadian rhythms that synchronize physiological and behavioural functions in humans. The …

Mechanisms linking circadian clocks, sleep, and neurodegeneration

ES Musiek, DM Holtzman - Science, 2016 - science.org
Disruptions of normal circadian rhythms and sleep cycles are consequences of aging and
can profoundly affect health. Accumulating evidence indicates that circadian and sleep …

'The clocks that time us'—circadian rhythms in neurodegenerative disorders

A Videnovic, AS Lazar, RA Barker… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Circadian rhythms are physiological and behavioural cycles generated by an endogenous
biological clock, the suprachiasmatic nucleus. The circadian system influences the majority …

Defining circadian disruption in neurodegenerative disorders

CS Colwell - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Neurodegenerative diseases encompass a large group of conditions that are clinically and
pathologically diverse yet are linked by a shared pathology of misfolded proteins. The …

Linking neural activity and molecular oscillations in the SCN

CS Colwell - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2011 - nature.com
Neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) function as part of a central timing circuit that
drives daily changes in our behaviour and underlying physiology. A hallmark feature of SCN …

Choosing an animal model for the study of Huntington's disease

MA Pouladi, AJ Morton, MR Hayden - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2013 - nature.com
Since the identification of the causative gene in Huntington's disease (HD), a number of
animal models of this disorder have been developed. A frequently asked question is: which …

Age-related decline in circadian output

TJ Nakamura, W Nakamura, S Yamazaki… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
Disruptions in sleep/wake cycles, including decreased amplitude of rhythmic behaviors and
fragmentation of the sleep episodes, are commonly associated with aging in humans and …

Mutant huntingtin's interaction with mitochondrial protein Drp1 impairs mitochondrial biogenesis and causes defective axonal transport and synaptic degeneration in …

UP Shirendeb, MJ Calkins, M Manczak… - Human molecular …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of this study was to investigate the link between mutant huntingtin (Htt) and
neuronal damage in relation to mitochondria in Huntington's disease (HD). In an earlier …

Is dysregulation of the HPA-axis a core pathophysiology mediating co-morbid depression in neurodegenerative diseases?

X Du, TY Pang - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2015 - frontiersin.org
There is increasing evidence of prodromal manifestation of neuropsychiatric symptoms in a
variety of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD) and Huntington's …

Reciprocal regulation of chaperone-mediated autophagy and the circadian clock

YR Juste, S Kaushik, M Bourdenx, R Aflakpui… - Nature cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Circadian rhythms align physiological functions with the light–dark cycle through oscillatory
changes in the abundance of proteins in the clock transcriptional programme. Timely …