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2011-10-25
CREB-activity and nmnat2 transcription are down-regulated prior to neurodegeneration, while NMNAT2 over-expression is neuroprotective, in a mouse model of human tauopathy
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Human molecular genetics
Key finding: Forebrain-specific over-expression of human tau(P301L), a mutation associated with frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17, in rTg4510 mice results in the formation of NFTs, learning and memory impairment and massive neuronal death. +2 more findings
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2011-10-25
Synaptic dysfunction in progranulin-deficient mice
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neurobiology of disease
Key finding: Additionally, apical dendrites in pyramidal cells in the CA1 region of the hippocampus in GrnKO males display an altered morphology and have significantly decreased spine density compared to wild-type (WT) mice. +1 more finding
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2011-10-24
Video-telemedicine in a memory disorders clinic: evaluation and management of rural elders with cognitive impairment
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association
Key finding: VTM is emerging as an effective way to provide consultation and care to rural residents who may not have access to specialty services and can be integrated into current clinical settings. +2 more findings
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2011-10-21
Mechanistic Studies of Antibody-Mediated Clearance of Tau Aggregates Using an ex vivo Brain Slice Model
40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Frontiers in psychiatry
Key finding: Recent studies have shown that immunotherapy clears amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and reduces Aβ levels in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as well as in AD patients. +3 more findings
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2011-10-21
Chronic brain hypoperfusion causes early glial activation and neuronal death, and subsequent long-term memory impairment
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Brain research bulletin
Key finding: The working hypothesis is that metabolic impairment following hypoperfusion will affect neuron and glial function and result in functional damage. +3 more findings
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2011-10-21
What is the clinically relevant change on the ADAS-Cog?
56/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
Key finding: 59 recruiting sites for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. +3 more findings
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2011-10-18
Genome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease with psychotic symptoms
59/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Molecular psychiatry
Key finding: Psychotic symptoms occur in ~40% of subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and are associated with more rapid cognitive decline and increased functional deficits. +2 more findings
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2011-10-15
Stages of the Pathologic Process in Alzheimer Disease: Age Categories From 1 to 100 Years
54/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology
Two thousand three hundred and thirty two nonselected brains from 1- to 100-year-old individuals were examined using immunocytochemistry (AT8) and Gallyas silver staining for abnormal tau; immunocytochemistry (4G8) and Campbell-Switzer staining were used for the detection ofβ-amyloid.
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2011-10-14
Sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling and its role in disease
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Trends in cell biology
Key finding: More recently, it was shown that S1P also has important intracellular targets involved in inflammation, cancer and Alzheimer's disease. +1 more finding
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2011-10-14
High dimensional classification of structural MRI Alzheimer's disease data based on large scale regularization
47/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Frontiers in neuroinformatics
Key finding: Higher levels of accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity were achieved for gray matter (GM) volume maps (85.7, 82.9, and 90%, respectively) compared to white matter volume maps (81.1, 80.6, and 82.5%, respectively). +2 more findings
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2011-10-13
Multi-method analysis of MRI images in early diagnostics of Alzheimer's disease
48/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans PloS one
Key finding: The best results achieved with individual features are 90% sensitivity and 84% specificity (HC/AD classification), 64%/66% (S-MCI/P-MCI) and 82%/76% (HC/P-MCI) with the LDA classifier. +2 more findings
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2011-10-13
Antioxidant clinical trials in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease
42/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Biochimica et biophysica acta
Key finding: In this review, we report the main results of clinical trials with antioxidants in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD.
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2011-10-12
Multi-faced neuroprotective effects of Ginsenoside Rg1 in an Alzheimer mouse model
44/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Biochimica et biophysica acta
Key finding: The well-characterized transgenic Alzheimer disease (AD) mice over expressing amyloid precursor protein (APP)/Aβ (Tg mAPP) and nontransgenic (nonTg) littermates at age of 6 and 9 months were treated with Rg 1 for three months via intraperitoneal injection. +3 more findings
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2011-10-12
Elevation of glutathione as a therapeutic strategy in Alzheimer disease
47/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Biochimica et biophysica acta
Key finding: Oxidative stress has been associated with the onset and progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD). +1 more finding
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2011-10-12
Predicting MCI outcome with clinically available MRI and CSF biomarkers
52/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neurology
Key finding: Incorporating quantitative assessment of learning ability along with vMRI or CSF biomarkers in the clinical workup of MCI can provide critical information on risk of imminent conversion to AD. +2 more findings
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2011-10-11
New advances in NMDA receptor pharmacology
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Trends in pharmacological sciences
Key finding: These receptors have been implicated for decades in neurological diseases such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, dementia and schizophrenia. +4 more findings
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2011-10-11
Clinical diagnosis and management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
55/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Nature reviews. Neurology
Key finding: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that results in progressive loss of bulbar and limb function. +1 more finding
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2011-10-10
Mechanism of amyloid removal in patients with Alzheimer disease treated with gantenerumab
72/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Archives of neurology
Key finding: Gantenerumab treatment resulted in a dose-dependent reduction in brain amyloid level, possibly through an effector cell-mediated mechanism of action.
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2011-10-08
Association between frontal cortex oxidative damage and beta-amyloid as a function of age in Down syndrome
47/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Biochimica et biophysica acta
Key finding: In this study, we tested the hypothesis that DS brains with neuropathological hallmarks of AD have more oxidative and nitrosative stress than those with DS but without significant AD pathology, as compared with similarly aged-matched non-DS controls. +3 more findings
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2011-10-07
Alzheimer-specific variants in the 3'UTR of Amyloid precursor protein affect microRNA function
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Molecular neurodegeneration
Key finding: APP expression misregulation can cause genetic Alzheimer's disease (AD). +3 more findings
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2011-10-06
Neuroinflammation in delirium: a postmortem case-control study
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Rejuvenation research
Key finding: These preliminary study results show an association between human brain activity of microglia, astrocytes, and IL-6 and delirium in elderly patients and add to the accumulating evidence that inflammatory mechanisms are involved in delirium. +4 more findings
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2011-10-05
Effect of public deliberation on attitudes toward surrogate consent for dementia research
61/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Neurology
Key finding: This sample of the older general public generally supported a policy of surrogate consent for AD research at baseline.
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2011-10-05
Age-related changes in the default mode network are more advanced in Alzheimer disease
59/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Genetics Neurology
Key finding: The results of this study indicate that the DMN abnormalities observed in patients with AD represent an accelerated aging pattern of connectivity compared with matched controls. +2 more findings
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2011-10-04
Multi-modal multi-task learning for joint prediction of multiple regression and classification variables in Alzheimer's disease
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging NeuroImage
Key finding: The results on both sets of experiments demonstrate that our proposed M3T learning scheme can achieve better performance on both regression and classification tasks than the conventional learning methods.
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2011-10-04
Co-morbidity and drug treatment in Alzheimer's disease. A cross sectional study of participants in the dementia study in northern Norway
57/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities BMC geriatrics
Key finding: A co-morbidity score was significantly higher in AD participants compared to controls. +2 more findings
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