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Tau pathology and cognitive reserve in Alzheimer's disease
Merle Christine Hoenig, Gérard Nisal Bischof, Jochen Hammes, Jennifer Faber, Klaus Fliessbach, Thilo van Eimeren, Alexander Drzezga. Neurobiology of aging, 2017-05-10
Topic: Plasma and spinal-fluid biomarkers
Cognitive reserve (CR) is defined as the ability to maintain functionality despite accumulating pathology. Education has been used as a proxy for CR. For example, by using positron emission tomography imaging, higher educated Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients presented increased amyloid β pathology than lower educated patients despite equal symptomatology. Whether similar associations exist for in vivo tau pathology remains elusive. We utilized [18F]AV-1451 positron emission tomography imaging to examine whether high-educated AD patients (n = 12) present more severe tau pathology compared with low-educated patients (n = 12) despite equal clinical severity in regions of interest corresponding to the pathologic disease stages defined by Braak & Braak. We report tau pathology in advanced Braak stages associated with parietal and frontal regions in high-educated AD patients, whereas in low-educated AD patients tau accumulation is still confined to lower Braak stages associated with temporal and cingulate regions. Highly educated AD patients seem to be able to tolerate more tau tangle pathology than lower educated patients with comparable cognitive impairment supporting the cognitive reserve hypothesis.
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Hoenig, M. C., Bischof, G. N., Hammes, J., Faber, J., Fliessbach, K., van Eimeren, T., et al. (2017). Tau pathology and cognitive reserve in Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology of aging. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.05.004
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Hoenig MC, Bischof GN, Hammes J, Faber J, Fliessbach K, van Eimeren T, et al. Tau pathology and cognitive reserve in Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology of aging. 2017. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.05.004. PMID: 28577411.
BibTeX
@article{hoenig2017-28577411,
author = {Hoenig, Merle Christine and Bischof, Gérard Nisal and Hammes, Jochen and Faber, Jennifer and Fliessbach, Klaus and van Eimeren, Thilo and Drzezga, Alexander},
title = {{Tau pathology and cognitive reserve in Alzheimer's disease}},
journal = {Neurobiology of aging},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.05.004},
pmid = {28577411},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.05.004}
}
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Key findings
- We utilized [18F]AV-1451 positron emission tomography imaging to examine whether high-educated AD patients (n = 12) present more severe tau pathology compared with low-educated patients (n = 12) despite equal clinical severity in regions of interest corresponding to the pathologic disease stages defined by Braak & Braak.
- We report tau pathology in advanced Braak stages associated with parietal and frontal regions in high-educated AD patients, whereas in low-educated AD patients tau accumulation is still confined to lower Braak stages associated with temporal and cingulate regions.
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Study details
- Participants12
- Evidence strengthLow
How this study scored 46/100
Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scored zero for study design, effect reported and randomized / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on journal's citation record, times cited, citations per year, impact for its field and year, cited by studies here, still being cited, senior author's track record, institution's track record, multicenter collaboration and free to read, so those were left out: it earned 26 of the 56 points we could judge it on, which is 46 out of 100.
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| Journal tier | 7 / 10 | Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (Neurobiology of aging) |
| Journal's citation record | — / 4 | No journal record from OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Study design | 0 / 12 | No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Strength of evidence | 1 / 5 | Rated “low” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 10 / 10 | Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal. |
| How recent | 2 / 5 | 2017 — within 10 year(s) of the newest study here |
| Sample size | 1 / 4 | 12 participants |
| Effect reported | 0 / 3 | No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Studied in people | 3 / 3 | Studied in people (participant count stated) |
| Randomized / blinded | 0 / 2 | No randomization or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
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| Indexed in PubMed | 2 / 2 | Indexed in PubMed (PMID 28577411) |
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| Points | 26 / 56 | Scored on 10 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 26 of the 56 points we could judge it on is 46 out of 100. |
| Total | 46 / 100 | — |
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