Alzheimer's Disease and Epilepsy: Exploring Shared Pathways and Promising Biomarkers for Future Treatments

AC Kalyvas, M Dimitriou, P Ioannidis… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) and epilepsy represent two complex neurological
disorders with distinct clinical manifestations, yet recent research has highlighted their …

Network hyperexcitability in early Alzheimer's disease: is functional connectivity a potential biomarker?

CJ Stam, AM van Nifterick, W de Haan, AA Gouw - Brain Topography, 2023 - Springer
Network hyperexcitability (NH) is an important feature of the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's
disease. Functional connectivity (FC) of brain networks has been proposed as a potential …

Altered Functional connectivity of basal ganglia in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

Y Xiong, C Ye, Y Chen, X Zhong, H Chen, R Sun… - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD), an age-progressive neurodegenerative disease
that affects cognitive function, causes changes in the functional connectivity of the default …

A Strategy for Allowing Earlier Diagnosis and Rigorous Evaluation of BACE1 Inhibitors in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

M Ohno - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2024 - content.iospress.com
Given continued failure of BACE1 inhibitor programs at symptomatic and prodromal stages
of Alzheimer's disease (AD), clinical trials need to target the earlier preclinical stage …

[HTML][HTML] Disrupted balance of gray matter volume and directed functional connectivity in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

Y Xiong, C Ye, R Sun, Y Chen, X Zhong… - Current Alzheimer …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Alterations in functional connectivity have been demonstrated in Alzheimer's
disease (AD), an age-progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects cognitive function; …

No major effect of dopamine receptor 1/5 antagonist SCH‐23390 on epileptic activity in the Tg2576 mouse model of amyloidosis

A B. Szabo, F Sayegh, S Gauzin… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The excitation‐inhibition imbalance manifesting as epileptic activities in Alzheimer's disease
is gaining more and more attention, and several potentially involved cellular and molecular …

[HTML][HTML] From Classical to Alternative Pathways of 2-Arachidonoylglycerol Synthesis: AlterAGs at the Crossroad of Endocannabinoid and Lysophospholipid Signaling

F Briand-Mésange, I Gennero, J Salles, S Trudel… - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) is the most abundant endocannabinoid (EC), acting as a full
agonist at both CB1 and CB2 cannabinoid receptors. It is synthesized on demand in …

Overlapping and distinct phenotypic profiles in Alzheimer's disease and late onset epilepsy: a biologically-based approach

AA Liu, WB Barr - Frontiers in Neurology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Due to shared hippocampal dysfunction, patients with Alzheimer's dementia and late-onset
epilepsy (LOE) report memory decline. Multiple studies have described the epidemiological …

Epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease: shared pathology, clinical presentations, and targets for treatment

B Leeman-Markowski, J Chin, D Leitner… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
While epilepsy incidence peaks in older adults (1, 2), the association between epilepsy and
Alzheimer's disease (AD) extends beyond the increased risk of AD with age. Epilepsy and …

Upsetting the Balance: How Modifiable Risk Factors Contribute to the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease

CM Carroll, RM Benca - Biomolecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting nearly one in nine older
adults in the US. This number is expected to grow exponentially, thereby increasing stress …