Connectome-based modelling of neurodegenerative diseases: towards precision medicine and mechanistic insight

JW Vogel, N Corriveau-Lecavalier… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are the most common cause of dementia. Although their
underlying molecular pathologies have been identified, there is substantial heterogeneity in …

Prefrontal connectomics: from anatomy to human imaging

SN Haber, H Liu, J Seidlitz, E Bullmore - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
The fundamental importance of prefrontal cortical connectivity to information processing and,
therefore, disorders of cognition, emotion, and behavior has been recognized for decades …

Local molecular and global connectomic contributions to cross-disorder cortical abnormalities

JY Hansen, G Shafiei, JW Vogel, K Smart… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Numerous brain disorders demonstrate structural brain abnormalities, which are thought to
arise from molecular perturbations or connectome miswiring. The unique and shared …

Network structure and transcriptomic vulnerability shape atrophy in frontotemporal dementia

G Shafiei, V Bazinet, M Dadar, AL Manera, DL Collins… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Connections among brain regions allow pathological perturbations to spread from a single
source region to multiple regions. Patterns of neurodegeneration in multiple diseases …

Hunting for the cause: Evidence for prion-like mechanisms in Huntington's disease

KM Donnelly, CM Coleman, ML Fuller… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The hypothesis that pathogenic protein aggregates associated with neurodegenerative
diseases spread from cell-to-cell in the brain in a manner akin to infectious prions has …

Progressive alterations in white matter microstructure across the timecourse of Huntington's disease

C Estevez‐Fraga, MS Elmalem, M Papoutsi… - Brain and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Whole‐brain longitudinal diffusion studies are crucial to examine changes in
structural connectivity in neurodegeneration. Here, we investigated the longitudinal …

TauFlowNet: Revealing latent propagation mechanism of tau aggregates using deep neural transport equations

T Dan, M Dere, WH Kim, M Kim, G Wu - Medical Image Analysis, 2024 - Elsevier
Mounting evidence shows that Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the propagation
of tau aggregates throughout the brain in a prion-like manner. Since current pathology …

Molecular and connectomic vulnerability shape cross-disorder cortical abnormalities

JY Hansen, G Shafiei, JW Vogel, K Smart, CE Bearden… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Numerous brain disorders demonstrate structural brain abnormalities, which are thought to
arise from molecular perturbations or connectome miswiring. The unique and shared …

Neuroimaging to Facilitate Clinical Trials in Huntington's Disease: Current Opinion from the EHDN Imaging Working Group

NZ Hobbs, M Papoutsi, A Delva… - Journal of …, 2024 - content.iospress.com
Neuroimaging is increasingly being included in clinical trials of Huntington's disease (HD)
for a wide range of purposes from participant selection and safety monitoring, through to …

Non-cell autonomous and epigenetic mechanisms of Huntington's disease

C Kim, A Yousefian-Jazi, SH Choi, I Chang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expansion of
CAG trinucleotide repeat located in the exon 1 of Huntingtin (HTT) gene in human …