[HTML][HTML] Connectome-based biophysics models of Alzheimer's disease diagnosis and prognosis

J Torok, C Anand, P Verma, A Raj - Translational Research, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) among aging populations and
the limited therapeutic options available to slow or reverse its progression, the need has …

Numerical and analytical simulation of the growth of amyloid-β plaques

AV Kuznetsov - Journal of Biomechanical …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Numerical and analytical solutions were employed to calculate the radius of an amyloid-β
(Aβ) plaque over time. To the author's knowledge, this study presents the first model …

[HTML][HTML] A review of brain injury at multiple time scales and its clinicopathological correlation through in silico modeling

A Awasthi, S Bhaskar, S Panda, S Roy - Brain Multiphysics, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the correlation between pathological changes and the type of brain injury is
pivotal in mitigating the damage and planning reliable and improved treatment strategies …

Effect of diffusivity of amyloid beta monomers on the formation of senile plaques

AV Kuznetsov - Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) presents a perplexing question: why does its development span
decades, even though individual amyloid beta (Aβ) deposits (senile plaques) can form …

[HTML][HTML] Macroscopic modelling of Alzheimer's disease: difficulties and challenges

M Bertsch, B Franchi, A Raj, MC Tesi - Brain Multiphysics, 2021 - Elsevier
In the context of Alzheimer's disease (AD), in silico research aims at giving complementary
and better insight into the complex mechanisms which determine the development of AD …

Well-posedness of a network transport model

M Bertsch, E Cozzolino, V Tora - Nonlinear Analysis, 2025 - Elsevier
We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions of a model for the progression of soluble
and insoluble toxic Tau proteins on a graph of nerve cells in an Alzheimer brain. The model …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular underpinnings of the selective vulnerability to tauopathic insults in Alzheimer's disease

J Torok, PD Maia, C Anand, A Raj - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) exhibit pathological
changes in the brain that proceed in a stereotyped and regionally specific fashion, but the …

Directionality bias is necessary to explain spatiotemporal progression of pathology in mouse models of tauopathy

J Torok, C Mezias, A Raj - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Mounting evidence implicates trans-synaptic connectome-based spread as a shared
mechanism behind different tauopathic conditions, yet also suggests there is divergent …

Selective vulnerability and resilience to Alzheimer's disease tauopathy as a function of genes and the connectome

C Anand, J Torok, F Abdelnour, P Maia, A Raj - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Brain regions in Alzheimer's (AD) exhibit distinct vulnerability to the disease's hallmark
pathology, with the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus succumbing early to tau tangles …

Extended fractional-polynomial generalizations of diffusion and Fisher-KPP equations on directed networks: Modeling neurodegenerative progression

A Rahimabadi, H Benali - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
In a variety of practical applications, there is a need to investigate diffusion or reaction-
diffusion processes on complex structures, including brain networks, that can be modeled as …