White matter degeneration in vascular and other ageing‐related dementias

Y Hase, K Horsburgh, M Ihara… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in neuroimaging have enabled greater understanding of the progression of
cerebral degenerative processes associated with ageing‐related dementias. Leukoaraiosis …

Alzheimer's disease: from pathology to therapeutic approaches

R Jakob‐Roetne, H Jacobsen - … Chemie International Edition, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Mind how you go: The current strategies for the development of therapies for Alzheimer's
disease are very diverse. Particular attention is given to the search for inhibitors (see picture …

Association of cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light concentration with Alzheimer disease progression

H Zetterberg, T Skillbäck, N Mattsson… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The extent to which large-caliber axonal degeneration contributes to Alzheimer
disease (AD) progression is unknown. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurofilament light (NFL) …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of regional DTI measures in distinguishing Alzheimer's disease, MCI, and normal aging

TM Nir, N Jahanshad, JE Villalon-Reina, AW Toga… - NeuroImage …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) recently added diffusion
tensor imaging (DTI), among several other new imaging modalities, in an effort to identify …

Atlas-based whole brain white matter analysis using large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping: application to normal elderly and Alzheimer's disease …

K Oishi, A Faria, H Jiang, X Li, K Akhter, J Zhang… - Neuroimage, 2009 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to establish single-participant white matter atlases based on
diffusion tensor imaging. As one of the applications of the atlas, automated brain …

Alzheimer's disease as homeostatic responses to age-related myelin breakdown

G Bartzokis - Neurobiology of aging, 2011 - Elsevier
The amyloid hypothesis (AH) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) posits that the fundamental cause
of AD is the accumulation of the peptide amyloid beta (Aβ) in the brain. This hypothesis has …

The life, death, and replacement of oligodendrocytes in the adult CNS

DM McTigue, RB Tripathi - Journal of neurochemistry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Oligodendrocytes (OLs) are mature glial cells that myelinate axons in the brain and spinal
cord. As such, they are integral to functional and efficient neuronal signaling. The embryonic …

Cell number changes in Alzheimer's disease relate to dementia, not to plaques and tangles

CH Andrade-Moraes, AV Oliveira-Pinto… - Brain, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Alzheimer's disease is the commonest cause of dementia in the elderly, but its pathological
determinants are still debated. Amyloid-β plaques and neurofibrillary tangles have been …

Frontal white matter hyperintensities, clasmatodendrosis and gliovascular abnormalities in ageing and post-stroke dementia

A Chen, RO Akinyemi, Y Hase, MJ Firbank… - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
White matter hyperintensities as seen on brain T 2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging
are associated with varying degrees of cognitive dysfunction in stroke, cerebral small vessel …

Quantification of myelin loss in frontal lobe white matter in vascular dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and dementia with Lewy bodies

M Ihara, TM Polvikoski, R Hall, JY Slade, RH Perry… - Acta …, 2010 - Springer
The aim of this study was to characterize myelin loss as one of the features of white matter
abnormalities across three common dementing disorders. We evaluated post-mortem brain …