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2010-06-11
Boosting power for clinical trials using classifiers based on multiple biomarkers
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Neurobiology of aging
Key finding: We created a Support Vector Machine algorithm that combines brain imaging and other biomarkers to classify 737 Alzheimer's disease Neuroimaging initiative (ADNI) subjects as having Alzheimer's disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or normal controls. +4 more findings
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2010-06-11
Automatic classification of patients with Alzheimer's disease from structural MRI: a comparison of ten methods using the ADNI database
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging NeuroImage
Key finding: For the prediction of conversion, no classifier obtained significantly better results than chance. +3 more findings
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2010-06-11
3D PIB and CSF biomarker associations with hippocampal atrophy in ADNI subjects
43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Neurobiology of aging
Key finding: All CSF measures showed significant associations with hippocampal volume and radial distance in the pooled sample.
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2010-06-11
The role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of delirium and dementia in older adults: a review
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety CNS neuroscience & therapeutics
Key finding: Delirium and dementia share similarities in clinical and pathogenic features, leading to the speculation that instead of being distinct clinical entities, the two age-related conditions may be linked by a common pathogenic mechanism. +4 more findings
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2010-06-11
Enrichment through biomarkers in clinical trials of Alzheimer's drugs in patients with mild cognitive impairment
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Neurobiology of aging
Key finding: Four hundred five MCI patients (143 converters and 262 nonconverters to AD within 2 years) of the Alzheimer's disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) were used. +3 more findings
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2010-06-11
3D maps localize caudate nucleus atrophy in 400 Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and healthy elderly subjects
48/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Cognitive tests and assessment Neurobiology of aging
Key finding: Here we mapped the 3D profile of caudate atrophy using a surface mapping approach in subjects with AD and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to identify potential clinical and pathological correlates. 3D surface models of the caudate were automatically extracted from 400 baseline MRI scans (100 AD, 200 MCI, 100 healthy elderly). +3 more findings
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2010-06-11
The dynamics of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative cohort
47/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Mild cognitive impairment Neurobiology of aging
Key finding: For most biomarkers the sigmoid model fitted data significantly better than the linear model. +1 more finding
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2010-06-11
Prevalence and pattern of cognitive impairment in rural and urban populations from Northern Portugal
45/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities BMC neurology
Key finding: The prevalence of cognitive impairment is higher in rural compared with urban populations. +2 more findings
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2010-06-10
Lysosomal proteolysis and autophagy require presenilin 1 and are disrupted by Alzheimer-related PS1 mutations
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Risk genes beyond APOE Cell
Key finding: In PS1 null blastocysts, neurons from mice hypomorphic for PS1 or conditionally depleted of PS1, substrate proteolysis and autophagosome clearance during macroautophagy are prevented as a result of a selective impairment of autolysosome acidification and cathepsin activation.
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2010-06-09
Hospitalization in community-dwelling persons with Alzheimer's disease: frequency and causes
57/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Clinical safety Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Key finding: In a community-dwelling population with generally mild AD, hospitalization is frequent, occurring in two-thirds of participants over a median follow-up time of 3 years. +2 more findings
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2010-06-09
Subtypes based on cerebrospinal fluid and magnetic resonance imaging markers in normal elderly predict cognitive decline
44/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Neurobiology of aging
Key finding: The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) studied normal controls (NC), subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and subjects with AD to identify patterns of biomarkers to aid in early diagnosis and effective treatment of AD. +3 more findings
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2010-06-08
Retinal nerve fiber layer structure abnormalities in early Alzheimer's disease: evidence in optical coherence tomography
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Neuroscience letters
Key finding: Compared with healthy age-matched controls, the RNFL thickness of AD patients were much thinner (p<0.05), especially in supra-retina and infra-retina, while no difference was found in the other retinal area. +1 more finding
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2010-06-08
Neurotoxic effects of TDP-43 overexpression in C. elegans
47/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Human molecular genetics
Key finding: We have engineered pan-neuronal expression of human TDP-43 protein in Caenorhabditis elegans, with the goal of generating a convenient in vivo model of TDP-43 function and neurotoxicity. +3 more findings
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2010-06-08
Obesity is linked with lower brain volume in 700 AD and MCI patients
54/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Long-term cohort studies Neurobiology of aging
Key finding: To determine if higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with brain volume deficits in cognitively impaired elderly subjects, we analyzed brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of 700 MCI or AD patients from 2 different cohorts: the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and the Cardiovascular Health Study-Cognition Study (CHS-CS). +3 more findings
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2010-06-04
Prevalence of psychiatric disorders among older adults in long-term care homes: a systematic review
60/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed How common it is International psychogeriatrics
Key finding: Dementia, depression and anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders among older adults in LTC. +2 more findings
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2010-06-03
Utilization patterns of ambulatory medical care before and after the diagnosis of dementia in Germany--results of a case-control study
53/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Digital health tools Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
Key finding: Service utilization by demented patients increases already within the year before the first diagnosis and stays on a relatively high level within the year after.
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2010-06-03
Niemann-Pick disease type C
50/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Orphanet journal of rare diseases
Key finding: Genotyping of patients is useful to confirm the diagnosis in the latter patients and essential for future prenatal diagnosis. +4 more findings
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2010-06-02
Selective Changes in Thin Spine Density and Morphology in Monkey Prefrontal Cortex Correlate with Aging-Related Cognitive Impairment
40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms Journal of Neuroscience
Key finding: In contrast to Alzheimer's disease (AD), in which circuit disruption occurs through neuron death, AAMI is due to circuit and synapse disruption in the absence of significant neuron loss and thus may be more amenable to prevention or treatment. +3 more findings
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2010-06-01
Perinatal choline supplementation improves cognitive functioning and emotion regulation in the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Behavioral neuroscience
Key finding: Specifically, the adult offspring of choline-supplemented Ts65Dn dams performed significantly better than unsupplemented Ts65Dn mice on a series of 5 visual attention tasks, and in fact, on some tasks did not differ from the normosomic (2N) controls. +1 more finding
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2010-06-01
Incretin analogues that have been developed to treat type 2 diabetes hold promise as a novel treatment strategy for Alzheimer's disease
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Drug development Recent patents on CNS drug discovery
Key finding: The receptors for GIP and GLP-1 are expressed in neurons, and both GIP and GLP-1 are expressed and released as transmitters by neurons. +4 more findings
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2010-06-01
Amygdala and hippocampus enlargement during adolescence in autism
43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Hippocampus size on brain scans Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Key finding: The abnormal enlargement of the amygdala and hippocampus in adolescents with autism adds to previous findings of enlargement of these structures in children with autism. +4 more findings
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2010-06-01
Withholding, discontinuing and withdrawing medications in dementia patients at the end of life: a neglected problem in the disadvantaged dying?
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed End-of-life care Drugs & aging
Key finding: Significant research must be undertaken in the area of medication discontinuation in patients with advanced dementia nearing the end of life to determine how physicians currently decide whether medications should be discontinued, and also to develop the evidence base and provide guidance on systematic medication discontinuation.
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2010-06-01
A pathologic cascade leading to synaptic dysfunction in alpha-synuclein-induced neurodegeneration
36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disease mechanisms The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Key finding: Indeed, several endogenous presynaptic proteins involved in exocytosis and endocytosis were undetectable in a subset of transgenic boutons ("vacant synapses") with diminished levels in the remainder, suggesting that such diminutions were triggering the overall synaptic pathology.
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2010-06-01
TDP-43 mediates degeneration in a novel Drosophila model of disease caused by mutations in VCP/p97
48/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Key finding: VCP (p97 in mouse, TER94 in Drosophila melanogaster, and CDC48 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is a highly conserved AAA(+) (ATPases associated with multiple cellular activities) ATPase that regulates a wide array of cellular processes. +3 more findings
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2010-06-01
In vivo imaging of amyloid deposition in Alzheimer disease using the radioligand 18F-AV-45 (florbetapir [corrected] F 18)
56/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain tissue and pathology Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
Key finding: An (18)F-labeled PET amyloid-beta (Abeta) imaging agent could facilitate the clinical evaluation of late-life cognitive impairment by providing an objective measure for Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology. +3 more findings
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