Clinical neurology and epidemiology of the major neurodegenerative diseases

MG Erkkinen, MO Kim… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2018 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Neurodegenerative diseases are a common cause of morbidity and cognitive impairment in
older adults. Most clinicians who care for the elderly are not trained to diagnose these …

A quarter century of APOE and Alzheimer's disease: progress to date and the path forward

ME Belloy, V Napolioni, MD Greicius - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered a polygenic disorder. This view is clouded, however,
by lingering uncertainty over how to treat the quasi" monogenic" role of apolipoprotein E …

The α-synuclein PET tracer [18F] ACI-12589 distinguishes multiple system atrophy from other neurodegenerative diseases

R Smith, F Capotosti, M Schain, T Ohlsson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A positron emission tomography (PET) tracer detecting α-synuclein pathology will improve
the diagnosis, and ultimately the treatment of α-synuclein-related diseases. Here we show …

Heavy metals exposure and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

KM Bakulski, YA Seo, RC Hickman… - Journal of …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias lack effective treatment or cures and are major
public health challenges. Risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias is partially …

APOE4 is associated with cognitive and pathological heterogeneity in patients with Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review

S Emrani, HA Arain, C DeMarshall, T Nuriel - Alzheimer's research & …, 2020 - Springer
Possession of the ε4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the primary genetic risk factor for
the sporadic form of Alzheimer's disease (AD). While researchers have extensively …

A global view of the genetic basis of Alzheimer disease

C Reitz, MA Pericak-Vance, T Foroud… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) increases with age, family history and informative genetic
variants. Sadly, there is still no cure or means of prevention. As in other complex diseases …

Pathological combinations in neurodegenerative disease are heterogeneous and disease-associated

JL Robinson, SX Xie, DR Baer, ER Suh… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Pathologies that are causative for neurodegenerative disease (ND) are also frequently
present in unimpaired, older individuals. In this retrospective study of 1647 autopsied …

The development and convergence of co-pathologies in Alzheimer's disease

JL Robinson, H Richardson, SX Xie, ER Suh… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43
encephalopathy neuropathological change (LATE-NC) and Lewy bodies occur in the …

Exploring the etiological links behind neurodegenerative diseases: Inflammatory cytokines and bioactive kynurenines

M Tanaka, J Toldi, L Vécsei - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are the most common
neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), presenting a broad range of symptoms from motor …

Combined neuropathological pathways account for age‐related risk of dementia

MC Power, E Mormino, A Soldan, BD James… - Annals of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Our objectives were to characterize the inter‐relation of known dementia‐related
neuropathologies in one comprehensive model and quantify the extent to which …