Brain insulin resistance and deficiency as therapeutic targets in Alzheimer's disease

SM de la Monte - Current Alzheimer Research, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Alzheimer's disease [AD] is the most common cause of dementia in North America. Despite
30+ years of intense investigation, the field lacks consensus regarding the etiology and …

Glucose metabolism in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease: methodological and physiological considerations for PET studies

L Mosconi - Clinical and translational imaging, 2013 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-dependent neurodegenerative disorder associated with
progressive loss of cognitive function. 2-[18 F] fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG) positron …

Brain PET in suspected dementia: patterns of altered FDG metabolism

RKJ Brown, NI Bohnen, KK Wong, S Minoshima… - Radiographics, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
The diagnosis of dementia syndromes can be challenging for clinicians, particularly in the
early stages of disease. Patients with higher education levels may experience a marked …

Contributions of brain insulin resistance and deficiency in amyloid-related neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

SM de la Monte - Drugs, 2012 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in North America. Growing
evidence supports the concept that AD is fundamentally a metabolic disease that results in …

Parietal cortex matters in Alzheimer's disease: an overview of structural, functional and metabolic findings

HIL Jacobs, MPJ Van Boxtel, J Jolles… - Neuroscience & …, 2012 - Elsevier
Atrophy of the medial temporal lobe, especially the hippocampus and the parahippocampal
gyrus, is considered to be the most predictive structural brain biomarker for Alzheimer's …

Role of structural MRI in Alzheimer's disease

P Vemuri, CR Jack - Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2010 - Springer
Atrophy measured on structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) is a powerful biomarker
of the stage and intensity of the neurodegenerative aspect of Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

18F‐FDG PET for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease dementia and other dementias in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

M Vacante, C Hyde, S Martin… - Cochrane Database …, 2015 - cochranelibrary.com
Background ¹⁸F‐FDFG uptake by brain tissue as measured by positron emission
tomography (PET) is a well‐established method for assessment of brain function in people …

Domain transfer learning for MCI conversion prediction

B Cheng, M Liu, D Zhang, BC Munsell… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning methods have successfully been used to predict the conversion of mild
cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's disease (AD), by classifying MCI converters (MCI …

Sequential relationships between grey matter and white matter atrophy and brain metabolic abnormalities in early Alzheimer's disease

N Villain, M Fouquet, JC Baron, F Mézenge, B Landeau… - Brain, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Hippocampal atrophy, posterior cingulate and frontal glucose hypometabolism, and white-
matter tract disruption are well described early macroscopic events in Alzheimer's disease …

Blood-based proteomic biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease pathology

AL Baird, S Westwood, S Lovestone - Frontiers in neurology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The complexity of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its long prodromal phase poses challenges
for early diagnosis and yet allows for the possibility of the development of disease modifying …