Sex hormones, sleep, and memory: interrelationships across the adult female lifespan

YA Harrington, JM Parisi, D Duan… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As the population of older adults grows, so will the prevalence of aging-related conditions,
including memory impairments and sleep disturbances, both of which are more common …

Magnetic resonance imaging Locus Coeruleus abnormality in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment is associated with future progression to dementia

A Galgani, F Lombardo, N Martini… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Human neuropathological studies indicate that the pontine
nucleus Locus Coeruleus (LC) undergoes significant and early degeneration in Alzheimer's …

Associations between locus coeruleus integrity and nocturnal awakenings in the context of Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers: a 7T MRI study

M Van Egroo, RWE van Hooren, HIL Jacobs - Alzheimer's research & …, 2021 - Springer
Background The brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) constitutes the intersection of the initial
pathophysiological processes of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and sleep-wake dysregulation in …

Functional locus coeruleus imaging to investigate an ageing noradrenergic system

M Ludwig, YJ Yi, F Lüsebrink, MF Callaghan… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The locus coeruleus (LC), our main source of norepinephrine (NE) in the brain, declines with
age and is a potential epicentre of protein pathologies in neurodegenerative diseases (ND) …

Different patterns of locus coeruleus MRI alteration in Alzheimer's and dementia with Lewy bodies

A Galgani, G Palermo, F Lombardo… - Current Alzheimer …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: The integrity of Locus Coeruleus can be evaluated in vivo using specific
Magnetic Resonance Imaging sequences. While this nucleus has been shown to be …

Daily heart rate variability biofeedback training decreases locus coeruleus MRI contrast in younger adults in a randomized clinical trial

SL Bachman, S Cole, HJ Yoo, K Nashiro, J Min… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
As an arousal hub region in the brain, the locus coeruleus (LC) has bidirectional
connections with the autonomic nervous system. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based …

Associations between MRI-assessed locus coeruleus integrity and cortical gray matter microstructure

JA Elman, OK Puckett, DJ Hagler Jr, RC Pearce… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The locus coeruleus (LC) is one of the earliest sites of tau pathology, making it a key
structure in early Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression. As the primary source of …

Sex-Related Disparities in the Resting State Functional Connectivity of the Locus Coeruelus and Salience Network in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

YH Um, SM Wang, DW Kang, S Kim, CU Lee… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recent studies have demonstrated the pivotal role of locus coeruleus (LC) and salience
network (SN) resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) changes in the early stage of …

Invited Perspective: Blue Skies and Alzheimer's Disease

C Linnman - Environmental Health Perspectives, 2024 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
brainstem, hippocampus, and striatum. 12–14 Once there, particles may induce microglial
activation, 15 tau phosphorylation, 16 and neuronal death. 17 The LC innervates the …

[HTML][HTML] Eye movements reveal age differences in how arousal modulates saliency priority but not attention processing speed

AJ Kim, K Nguyen, M Mather - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The arousal-biased competition theory posits that inducing arousal increases attentional
priority of salient stimuli while reducing priority of non-pertinent stimuli. However, unlike in …