[HTML][HTML] The UK Biobank imaging enhancement of 100,000 participants: rationale, data collection, management and future directions

TJ Littlejohns, J Holliday, LM Gibson, S Garratt… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
UK Biobank is a population-based cohort of half a million participants aged 40–69 years
recruited between 2006 and 2010. In 2014, UK Biobank started the world's largest multi …

[HTML][HTML] APOE in the normal brain

SA Flowers, GW Rebeck - Neurobiology of disease, 2020 - Elsevier
The APOE4 protein affects the primary neuropathological markers of Alzheimer's disease
(AD): amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and gliosis. These interactions have been …

Associations between vascular risk factors and brain MRI indices in UK Biobank

SR Cox, DM Lyall, SJ Ritchie, ME Bastin… - European heart …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Aims Several factors are known to increase risk for cerebrovascular disease and dementia,
but there is limited evidence on associations between multiple vascular risk factors (VRFs) …

[HTML][HTML] Structural brain imaging correlates of general intelligence in UK Biobank

SR Cox, SJ Ritchie, C Fawns-Ritchie, EM Tucker-Drob… - Intelligence, 2019 - Elsevier
The associations between indices of brain structure and measured intelligence are unclear.
This is partly because the evidence to-date comes from mostly small and heterogeneous …

[HTML][HTML] Phenotypic and genetic associations of quantitative magnetic susceptibility in UK Biobank brain imaging

C Wang, AB Martins-Bach, F Alfaro-Almagro… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A key aim in epidemiological neuroscience is identification of markers to assess brain health
and monitor therapeutic interventions. Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is an …

[HTML][HTML] Predictors of longitudinal cognitive ageing from age 70 to 82 including APOE e4 status, early-life and lifestyle factors: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

J Corley, F Conte, SE Harris, AM Taylor… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Discovering why some people's cognitive abilities decline more than others is a key
challenge for cognitive ageing research. The most effective strategy may be to address …

[HTML][HTML] The association between white matter hyperintensities and amyloid and tau deposition

SL Alban, KM Lynch, JM Ringman, AW Toga… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2023 - Elsevier
White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) frequently occur in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and
have a contribution from ischemia, though their relationship with β-amyloid and …

Women's brain aging: Effects of sex‐hormone exposure, pregnancies, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease

AMG de Lange, C Barth, T Kaufmann… - Human brain …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sex hormones such as estrogen fluctuate across the female lifespan, with high levels during
reproductive years and natural decline during the transition to menopause. Women's …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolism-related brain morphology accelerates aging and predicts neurodegenerative diseases and stroke: a UK Biobank study

C Shen, C Liu, A Qiu - Translational Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Abstracts Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is characterized by a constellation of metabolic risk
factors, including obesity, hypertriglyceridemia, low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels …

[HTML][HTML] Associations of cigarette smoking with gray and white matter in the UK Biobank

JC Gray, M Thompson, C Bachman… - …, 2020 - nature.com
Cigarette smoking is associated with increased risk for myriad health consequences
including cognitive decline and dementia, but research on the link between smoking and …