Lasting impact of general anaesthesia on the brain: mechanisms and relevance

L Vutskits, Z Xie - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
General anaesthesia is usually considered to safely induce a reversible brain state allowing
the performance of surgery under optimal conditions. An increasing number of clinical and …

Alzheimer's disease

HW Querfurth, FM LaFerla - New England Journal of Medicine, 2010 - Mass Medical Soc
This review of Alzheimer's disease assembles a variety of findings relevant to the
mechanism of the disease and ties them together using the current understanding of the …

A three-dimensional human neural cell culture model of Alzheimer's disease

SH Choi, YH Kim, M Hebisch, C Sliwinski, S Lee… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, characterized by two
pathological hallmarks: amyloid-β plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. The amyloid …

Impairment of glymphatic pathway function promotes tau pathology after traumatic brain injury

JJ Iliff, MJ Chen, BA Plog, DM Zeppenfeld… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an established risk factor for the early development of
dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, and the post-traumatic brain frequently exhibits …

Factors other than hTau overexpression that contribute to tauopathy-like phenotype in rTg4510 mice

J Gamache, K Benzow, C Forster, L Kemper… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The tauopathy-like phenotype observed in the rTg4510 mouse line, in which human
tauP301L expression specifically within the forebrain can be temporally controlled, has …

Modulating heart rate oscillation affects plasma amyloid beta and tau levels in younger and older adults

J Min, J Rouanet, AC Martini, K Nashiro, HJ Yoo… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Slow paced breathing via heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback stimulates vagus-nerve
pathways that counter noradrenergic stress and arousal pathways that can influence …

Perioperative neurocognitive disorder: state of the preclinical science

RG Eckenhoff, M Maze, Z Xie, DJ Culley… - …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The purpose of this white paper is to provide a succinct summary of the different
experimental approaches that have been used in preclinical post-operative cognitive …

Anaesthetic neurotoxicity and neuroplasticity: an expert group report and statement based on the BJA Salzburg Seminar

V Jevtovic-Todorovic, AR Absalom… - British journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Although previously considered entirely reversible, general anaesthesia is now being
viewed as a potentially significant risk to cognitive performance at both extremes of age. A …

Beneficial effects of caffeine in a transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease-like tau pathology

C Laurent, S Eddarkaoui, M Derisbourg… - Neurobiology of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Tau pathology found in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is crucial in cognitive decline.
Epidemiologic evidences support that habitual caffeine intake prevents memory decline …

Acute peri‐operative neurocognitive disorders: a narrative review

L Evered, K Atkins, B Silbert, DA Scott - Anaesthesia, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Peri‐operative neurocognitive disorders are the most common complication experienced by
older individuals undergoing anaesthesia and surgery. Peri‐operative neurocognitive …