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2014-01-01
Increased brain penetration and potency of a therapeutic antibody using a monovalent molecular shuttle
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Neuron
Key finding: Brain Shuttle version of an anti-Aβ antibody, which uses a monovalent binding mode to the TfR, increases β-Amyloid target engagement in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease by 55-fold compared to the parent antibody. +2 more findings
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2014-01-01
BDNF and synaptic plasticity, cognitive function, and dysfunction
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Handbook of experimental pharmacology
Key finding: Converging evidence now strongly suggest that deficits in BDNF signaling contribute to the pathogenesis of several major diseases and disorders such as Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and depression.
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2014-01-01
The prevalence of peripheral and central hearing impairment and its relation to cognition in older adults
48/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Audiology & neuro-otology
Key finding: Recent studies have suggested that hearing loss is independently associated with poorer cognitive functioning. +1 more finding
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2014-01-01
Mitochondrial biogenesis: pharmacological approaches
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Current pharmaceutical design
Key finding: Whereas a modest expression of this transcriptional co-activator results in positive effects, a moderate to substantial overexpession may have deleterious consequences.
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2014-01-01
Efficacy and safety of donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine, and memantine for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
57/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Key finding: Cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine are able to stabilize or slow decline in cognition, function, behavior, and global change. +1 more finding
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2014-01-01
Motor and cognitive advantages persist 12 months after exenatide exposure in Parkinson's disease
72/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Journal of Parkinson's disease
Key finding: Compared to the control group of patients, patients previously exposed to exenatide had an advantage of 5.6 points (95% CI, 2.2-9.0; p = 0.002) using blinded video rating of the MDS-UPDRS part 3 motor subscale.
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2014-01-01
Specific targeting of tau oligomers in Htau mice prevents cognitive impairment and tau toxicity following injection with brain-derived tau oligomeric seeds
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Key finding: Historically, neurofibrillary tangles have been considered the main tau species of interest in Alzheimer's disease; however, we and others have shown that tau oligomers may be the most toxic form and the species responsible for the spread of pathology. +3 more findings
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2014-01-01
Novel plasma biomarker surrogating cerebral amyloid deposition
40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences
Key finding: APP669-711/Aβ1-42 significantly increased in the PiB+ groups.
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2014-01-01
Developing novel blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease
40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Key finding: Alzheimer's disease is the public health crisis of the 21st century. +4 more findings
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2014-01-01
Familial Alzheimer's mutations within APPTM increase Aβ42 production by enhancing accessibility of ε-cleavage site
40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Biomarkers Nature communications
Key finding: The C-terminus of Aβ is generated by γ-secretase cleavage within the transmembrane domain of APP (APPTM), a process that is primed by an initial ε-cleavage at either T48 or L49, resulting in subsequent production of Aβ42 or Aβ40, respectively. +4 more findings
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2014-01-01
Abnormal amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations of intrinsic brain activity in Alzheimer's disease
43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Key finding: Compared to controls, AD patients showed decreased ALFF values in the bilateral PCC/PCu, inferior parietal lobe, and several temporal regions, and increased ALFF values mainly in the bilateral Hip/PHG, and middle and inferior temporal gyri. +4 more findings
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2014-01-01
Eating patterns are associated with cognitive function in the elderly at risk of metabolic syndrome from rural areas
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials European review for medical and pharmacological sciences
Key finding: Greater adherence to MedDiet and frequency of consumption of some foods were associated with better scores in several CF tests in elderly individuals with high risk of MS living in a rural community. +2 more findings
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2014-01-01
Cognition and nutrition
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care
Key finding: Undernutrition is associated with cognitive decline. +1 more finding
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2014-01-01
Mediterranean diet and cognitive decline. A lesson from the whole-diet approach: what challenges lie ahead?
64/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Key finding: Higher adherence to a Mediterranean-type diet was associated with decreased cognitive decline, although the Mediterranean diet (MeDi) combines several foods, micronutrients, and macronutrients already separately proposed as potential protective factors against dementia and predementia syndromes. +1 more finding
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2014-01-01
Giving words new life: generalization of word retraining outcomes in semantic dementia
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Key finding: There was clear evidence of generalization especially in patients with milder semantic impairments. +2 more findings
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2014-01-01
The Timecourse of Global Cognitive Gains from Supervised Computer-Assisted Cognitive Training: A Randomised, Active-Controlled Trial in Elderly with Multiple Dementia Risk Factors
67/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease
Key finding: In older adults with multiple dementia risk factors, group-based CCT is a safe and effective intervention for enhancing overall cognition, memory and processing speed. +3 more findings
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2014-01-01
Is cognitive training an effective treatment for preclinical and early Alzheimer's disease?
43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Key finding: The results of drug trials in this regard have thus far been disappointing, and non-pharmacological interventions are receiving increased attention. +2 more findings
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2014-01-01
Brain insulin resistance in Alzheimer's disease and its potential treatment with GLP-1 analogs
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Neurodegenerative disease management
Key finding: A promising strategy for developing such therapies is the treatment of brain insulin resistance, a common and early feature of Alzheimer's disease, closely tied to cognitive decline and capable of promoting many biological abnormalities in the disorder. +4 more findings
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2014-01-01
The potential effects of meditation on age-related cognitive decline: a systematic review
64/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Key finding: Growing evidence suggests that cognitive training programs may have the potential to counteract this decline. +1 more finding
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2014-01-01
Metabolic correlates of Rey auditory verbal learning test in elderly subjects with memory complaints
40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Key finding: Patients with aMCI but not those with SMC showed the expected posterior cingulate-precuneus and parietal hypometabolism as compared to controls. +1 more finding
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2014-01-01
Health Motivation for Purchasing Local Foods in the Southeastern United States
28/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors 2015 Annual Meeting, January 31-February 3, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia
Key finding: (2013), Onozaka, Nurse, and Thilmany McFadden (2010), and Wolf, Apitler, and Ahern (2005) found that health motivation can be a significant driver of local foods purchase, yet it remains unclear what specific health aspects determine consumer purchase decisions. +1 more finding
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2014-01-01
Midlife and late-life body mass index and late-life dementia: results from a prospective population-based cohort
62/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Key finding: Obesity has been consistently associated with dementia. +3 more findings
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2014-01-01
Determinants, MRI correlates, and prognosis of mild cognitive impairment: the Rotterdam Study
50/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Key finding: We investigated determinants, MRI-correlates, and prognosis of MCI within the population-based Rotterdam Study. +3 more findings
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2014-01-01
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs exposure and the central nervous system
59/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Handbook of clinical neurology
Key finding: They are employed as anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic agents for a wide spectrum of clinical conditions. +3 more findings
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2014-01-01
Hippocampal sclerosis of aging is a key Alzheimer's disease mimic: clinical-pathologic correlations and comparisons with both alzheimer's disease and non-tauopathic frontotemporal lobar degeneration
50/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Key finding: However, much remains unknown about the clinical correlates of HS-Aging pathology or the association(s) between HS-Aging, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) pathology. +3 more findings
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