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July 2016 22
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2016-07-05
Proteolytic processing of Neuregulin-1
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Brain research bulletin
Key finding: The type 1 oriented stub is further cleaved by γ-secretase in the transmembrane domain with a putative role in intracellular domain (ICD) signaling, while the type II oriented stub is cleaved by signal peptidase like proteases (SPPLs). +4 more findings
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2016-07-04
Psychosocial interventions for people with dementia: An overview and commentary on recent developments
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Dementia (London, England)
Key finding: An influential review in 2010 concluded that non-pharmacological multi-component interventions have positive effects on cognitive functioning, activities of daily living, behaviour and mood of people with dementia. +2 more findings
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2016-07-04
Anxiety as a Predictor for Cognitive Decline and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
64/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
Key finding: Twenty studies met inclusion criteria. +2 more findings
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2016-07-02
Hearing and dementia
40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Journal of neurology
Key finding: Hearing deficits associated with cognitive impairment have attracted much recent interest, motivated by emerging evidence that impaired hearing is a risk factor for cognitive decline. +1 more finding
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2016-07-01
P2‐003: Clinical Trial Design of Cread: A Randomized, Double‐Blind, Placebo‐Controlled, Parallel‐Group Phase 3 Study to Evaluate Crenezumab Treatment in Patients with Prodromal‐To‐Mild Alzheimer’s Disease
52/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Alzheimer s & Dementia
Key finding: Although the co-primary endpoints (ADAS-Cog12 and CDR-SB) were not met, pre-planned exploratory analyses suggest that treatment with crenezumab compared with placebo leads to increasing benefit on both endpoints in progressively milder subsets of AD patients at the higher dose (15 mg/kg IV q4w). +1 more finding
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2016-07-01
P1‐146: Chlamydia Pneumoniae‐Infected Astrocytes Alter Their Expression of Adam10, Bace1, and Presenilin‐1 Proteases
38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Alzheimer s & Dementia
Key finding: These data indicate that infection of human astrocytes with Chlamydia pneumoniae strain AR39 promotes the processing of βAPP characteristic of Alzheimer’s Disease through enhancing BACE1 and PSEN1, but not ADAM10, protein levels.
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2016-07 month only
[Exercise and Physical Activity for Dementia Prevention]
54/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo
Key finding: The effects of exercise and physical activity on cognitive function and brain health have been established by longitudinal and intervention studies. +3 more findings
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2016-07-01
Overviews of Biological Importance of Quercetin: A Bioactive Flavonoid
40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Pharmacognosy reviews
Key finding: The previous studies showed that the ingestion of flavonoids reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, and certain types of cancer. +1 more finding
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2016-07-01
Imaging synaptic density in the living human brain
41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Science translational medicine
Key finding: Changes in the number of synapses are associated with numerous brain disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy. +1 more finding
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2016-07-01
In Vivo Tau, Amyloid, and Gray Matter Profiles in the Aging Brain
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Key finding: We found that Tau and amyloid-β deposits are associated with distinctive spatial patterns of brain tissue loss. +3 more findings
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2016-07-01
Neurofilament light chain: a biomarker for genetic frontotemporal dementia
62/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Annals of clinical and translational neurology
Key finding: NfL in both serum and CSF has the potential to serve as a biomarker for clinical disease onset and has a prognostic value in genetic FTD.
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2016-07-01
Sphingosine-1-Phosphate (S1P) and S1P Signaling Pathway: Therapeutic Targets in Autoimmunity and Inflammation
44/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Inflammation and the immune system Drugs
Key finding: S1P-S1PR signaling has been well characterized in immune trafficking and activation in innate and adaptive immune systems. +3 more findings
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2016-07-01
Genetic variations underlying Alzheimer's disease: evidence from genome-wide association studies and beyond
51/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics The Lancet. Neurology
Key finding: These loci are estimated to explain about 28% of the heritability of liability, 30% of familial risk, and over 50% of sibling recurrence risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. +3 more findings
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2016-07-01
TREM2 Binds to Apolipoproteins, Including APOE and CLU/APOJ, and Thereby Facilitates Uptake of Amyloid-Beta by Microglia
55/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics Neuron
Key finding: Starting from an unbiased protein microarray screen, we identified a set of lipoprotein particles (including LDL) and apolipoproteins (including CLU/APOJ and APOE) as ligands of TREM2. +3 more findings
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2016-07-01
Genomics of Alzheimer Disease: A Review
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE JAMA neurology
Key finding: Observations Genotype-phenotype correlations of AD are presented to provide a comprehensive appreciation of the spectrum of disease causation. +3 more findings
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2016-07-01
Rho-associated protein kinase 1 (ROCK1) is increased in Alzheimer's disease and ROCK1 depletion reduces amyloid-β levels in brain
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Journal of neurochemistry
Key finding: Here, we report that ROCK1 protein levels were elevated in mild cognitive impairment due to AD (MCI) and AD brains compared to controls. +4 more findings
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2016-07-01
Subjective cognitive decline: The first clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease?
58/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Dementia & neuropsychologia
Key finding: These findings support the idea that subjective cognitive complaints may be an early clinical marker that precedes mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease. +3 more findings
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2016-07-01
Cognitive Profiles on the Severe Impairment Battery Are Similar in Alzheimer Disease and Down Syndrome With Dementia
35/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Alzheimer disease and associated disorders
Key finding: Previous research has revealed similarities in the neuropathology, clinical presentation, and risk factors between persons with Alzheimer disease from the general population (GP-AD) and those with Down syndrome (DS-AD). +2 more findings
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2016-07-01
Homocysteine, B Vitamins, and Cognitive Impairment
48/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Annual review of nutrition
Key finding: Prospectively, elevated tHcy is associated with cognitive decline, white matter damage, brain atrophy, neurofibrillary tangles, and dementia. +1 more finding
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2016-07-01
Comparison of Feature Selection Techniques in Machine Learning for Anatomical Brain MRI in Dementia
38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Neuroinformatics
Key finding: NC classification, the variability in the test accuracy due to the subject sample did not vary between different methods and exceeded the variability due to different classifiers. +4 more findings
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2016-07-01
The ARIC-PET amyloid imaging study: Brain amyloid differences by age, race, sex, and APOE
69/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Neurology
Key finding: In this community-based cohort without dementia, florbetapir uptake is associated with older age and APOE genotype. +4 more findings
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2016-07-01
A/T/N: An unbiased descriptive classification scheme for Alzheimer disease biomarkers
64/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Neurology
Key finding: A number of current issues suggest that an unbiased descriptive classification scheme for these biomarkers would be useful.
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2016-06-29
Palliative and end-of-life care for people living with dementia in care homes: part 2
38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
Key finding: This article, the second of two, provides healthcare practitioners with an overview of best practice in palliative and end-of-life care, including nutrition, hydration, oral hygiene and pain management. +4 more findings
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2016-06-29
18F-AV-1451 tau PET imaging correlates strongly with tau neuropathology in MAPT mutation carriers
43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Brain : a journal of neurology
Key finding: This mutation results in 3- and 4-repeat tau aggregates similar to those in Alzheimer's disease, and many of the mutation carriers initially suffer from memory impairment and temporal lobe atrophy.
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2016-06-29
Tau PET in Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment
54/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology
Key finding: Tau PET imaging with (18)F-AV-1451 could serve as an in vivo biomarker for the evaluation of AD-related tau pathology and monitoring disease progression. +1 more finding
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