Revised criteria for diagnosis and staging of Alzheimer's disease: Alzheimer's Association Workgroup

CR Jack Jr, JS Andrews, TG Beach… - Alzheimer's & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association convened three
separate work groups in 2011 and single work groups in 2012 and 2018 to create …

APOE4 homozygozity represents a distinct genetic form of Alzheimer's disease

J Fortea, J Pegueroles, D Alcolea, O Belbin… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of APOE4 homozygosity on Alzheimer's disease
(AD) by examining its clinical, pathological and biomarker changes to see whether APOE4 …

Clinical and research application of fluid biomarkers in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease and Down syndrome

M Carmona-Iragui, A O'Connor, J Llibre-Guerra… - …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD) and Down syndrome (DS) constitute
genetic forms of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The study of these forms has been crucial in …

Going beyond established model systems of Alzheimer's disease: companion animals provide novel insights into the neurobiology of aging

AA de Sousa, BA Rigby Dames, EC Graff… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by brain plaques, tangles, and cognitive
impairment. AD is one of the most common age-related dementias in humans. Progress in …

AD-BERT: Using pre-trained language model to predict the progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

C Mao, J Xu, L Rasmussen, Y Li, P Adekkanattu… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective We develop a deep learning framework based on the pre-trained Bidirectional
Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model using unstructured clinical notes …

Reply to: Challenges to identifying risk versus protective factors in Alzheimer's disease

J Fortea, L Vaqué-Alcázar, J Pegueroles, D Alcolea… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Pappalettera et al. 1 raise important points concerning our recent publication on APOE4
homozygotes 2, specifically about the definition of Alzheimer's disease (AD), resilience …

Plasma and cerebrospinal fluid glial fibrillary acidic protein levels in adults with Down syndrome: a longitudinal cohort study

L Montoliu-Gaya, D Alcolea, NJ Ashton… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background The diagnosis of symptomatic Alzheimer's disease is a clinical challenge in
adults with Down syndrome. Blood biomarkers would be of particular clinical importance in …

Lecanemab and vascular-amyloid deposition in brains of people with Down syndrome

L Liu, A Saba, JR Pascual, MB Miller… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Anti-β-amyloid immunotherapy using lecanemab is becoming increasingly
available to patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) …

Longitudinal clinical and cognitive changes along the Alzheimer disease continuum in Down syndrome

L Videla, B Benejam, J Pegueroles… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Alzheimer disease (AD) is the main medical problem in adults with Down
syndrome (DS). However, the associations of age, intellectual disability (ID), and clinical …

Down syndrome in a new era for Alzheimer disease

MS Rafii, J Fortea - JAMA, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
US Food and Drug Administration–approveddisease-modifyingtreatmentsforAlzheimerdiseasear…
by prescription. This recent approval is based on evidence from large randomized, placebo …