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2010-12-22
Development of a new predictive model for polypathological patients. The PROFUND index
56/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety European journal of internal medicine
Key finding: This prognostic index provides an accurate and transportable method of stratifying 1-year death risk in PP. +2 more findings
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2010-12-22
Adherence to a Mediterranean-type dietary pattern and cognitive decline in a community population
52/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention trials The American journal of clinical nutrition
Key finding: The Mediterranean dietary pattern as captured by the MedDiet scoring system may reduce the rate of cognitive decline with older age. +3 more findings
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2010-12-22
Nasu-Hakola disease with a splicing mutation of TREM2 in a Japanese family
39/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed TREM2 and immune genetics European journal of neurology
Key finding: Nasu-Hakola disease (NHD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, characterized by a combination of progressive presenile dementia and formation of multifocal bone cysts, caused by genetic mutations of DAP12 and TREM2, which constitute a receptor/adapter signaling complex expressed on osteoclasts, dendritic cells, macrophages, and microglia. +3 more findings
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2010-12-22
The Danish Alzheimer intervention study: rationale, study design and baseline characteristics of the cohort
57/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments Neuroepidemiology
Key finding: The study will explore the added value of a multifaceted intervention programme and contribute to the design of future interventions for patients with mild dementia and their caregivers.
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2010-12-21
DTI measures in crossing-fibre areas: increased diffusion anisotropy reveals early white matter alteration in MCI and mild Alzheimer's disease
52/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging NeuroImage
Key finding: Significant differences between MCI and AD were essentially confined to the corpus callosum. +3 more findings
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2010-12-20
TDP-43 is directed to stress granules by sorbitol, a novel physiological osmotic and oxidative stressor
47/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia Molecular and cellular biology
Key finding: Recent work also suggests that TDP-43 associates with cytoplasmic stress granules, which are transient structures that form in response to stress. +1 more finding
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2010-12-20
Huntington's disease: a clinical review
51/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Orphanet journal of rare diseases
Key finding: The progression of the disease leads to a complete dependency in daily life, which results in patients requiring full-time care, and finally death.
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2010-12-16
Role of iron in brain injury after intraventricular hemorrhage
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Stroke
Key finding: Iron has a role in brain injury after IVH. +1 more finding
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2010-12-15
The pathological process underlying Alzheimer's disease in individuals under thirty
47/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Acta neuropathologica
Key finding: Brains of 42 individuals between the ages of 4 and 29 were examined with antibodies (AT8, 4G8) and silver stains for the presence of intraneuronal and extracellular protein aggregates associated with Alzheimer's disease. +1 more finding
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2010-12-15
Socially assistive robots in elderly care: a systematic review into effects and effectiveness
55/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Key finding: The positive results described, however, prompt further effectiveness research in this field.
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2010-12-14
Abeta42 neurotoxicity is mediated by ongoing nucleated polymerization process rather than by discrete Abeta42 species
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Treatments The Journal of biological chemistry
Key finding: We observed that crude Aβ42 preparations, containing a monomeric and heterogeneous mixture of Aβ42 oligomers, were more toxic than purified monomeric, protofibrillar fractions, or fibrils. +2 more findings
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2010-12-14
Loss of white matter integrity is associated with gait disorders in cerebral small vessel disease
48/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Vascular contributions Brain : a journal of neurology
Key finding: Pathological studies have demonstrated abnormalities in white matter that may appear normal on brain imaging. +2 more findings
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2010-12-13
The role of DYRK1A in neurodegenerative diseases
43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's The FEBS journal
Key finding: Recent studies indicate that the dual-specificity tyrosine phosphorylation-regulated kinase 1A (DYRK1A) gene, which is located on chromosome 21q22.2 and is overexpressed in Down syndrome (DS), may play a significant role in developmental brain defects and in early onset neurodegeneration, neuronal loss and dementia in DS. +1 more finding
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2010-12-12
Caspase-3 triggers early synaptic dysfunction in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Nature neuroscience
Key finding: We found a non-apoptotic baseline caspase-3 activity in hippocampal dendritic spines and an enhancement of this activity at the onset of memory decline in the Tg2576-APPswe mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. +2 more findings
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2010-12-10
Predictive markers for AD in a multi-modality framework: an analysis of MCI progression in the ADNI population
51/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment NeuroImage
Key finding: Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases affect over 20 million people worldwide, and this number is projected to significantly increase in the coming decades. +3 more findings
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2010-12-10
Childhood adversity heightens the impact of later-life caregiving stress on telomere length and inflammation
52/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk factors Psychosomatic medicine
Key finding: Adverse childhood events are related to continued vulnerability among older adults, enhancing the impact of chronic stressors. +2 more findings
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2010-12-10
Behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia: diagnosis, clinical staging, and management
50/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis The Lancet. Neurology
Key finding: Recently, criteria proposed for bvFTD define three levels of diagnostic certainty: possible, probable, and definite. +4 more findings
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2010-12-09
Decreased Clearance of CNS β-Amyloid in Alzheimer’s Disease
61/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Science
Alzheimer's disease is hypothesized to be caused by an imbalance between β-amyloid (Aβ) production and clearance that leads to Aβ accumulation in the central nervous system (CNS).
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2010-12-09
The cholinergic system in aging and neuronal degeneration
51/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Behavioural brain research
Key finding: However, the previous view of significant cholinergic cell loss during aging has been challenged. +1 more finding
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2010-12-09
Interim follow-up of a randomized controlled trial comparing Chinese style mind body (Tai Chi) and stretching exercises on cognitive function in subjects at risk of progressive cognitive decline
63/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Prevention and risk International journal of geriatric psychiatry
Key finding: We reported the interim findings of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine the effects of a mind body physical exercise (Tai Chi) on cognitive function in Chinese subjects at risk of cognitive decline.
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2010-12-07
Cerebrospinal fluid tau, p-tau 181 and amyloid-β38/40/42 in frontotemporal dementias and primary progressive aphasias
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Tau biomarkers Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
Key finding: High CSF p-tau and low ratios of Aβ(1-42)/Aβ(1-40) and Aβ(1-42)/Aβ(1-38), respectively, were specific for AD. +4 more findings
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2010-12-03
TDP-43 regulates its mRNA levels through a negative feedback loop
51/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Lewy body dementia The EMBO journal
Key finding: Our analysis indicated that the C-terminal region of TDP-43, which mediates TDP-43-hnRNP interactions, is also required for self-regulation. +2 more findings
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2010-12-02
Endothelial nitric oxide modulates expression and processing of amyloid precursor protein
46/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Circulation research
Key finding: The link between these risk factors and AD has yet to be identified; however, a common feature is endothelial dysfunction, specifically, decreased bioavailability of nitric oxide (NO). +3 more findings
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2010-12-01
Reimagining Alzheimer's disease--an age-based hypothesis
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Key finding: It begins with the most widely accepted risk factor for developing Alzheimer's disease: age. +4 more findings
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2010-12-01
Tau mislocalization to dendritic spines mediates synaptic dysfunction independently of neurodegeneration
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Neuron
Key finding: Recent advances in understanding these disorders indicate that brain dysfunction precedes neurodegeneration, but the role of tau is unclear. +1 more finding
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