Synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer disease

M Tzioras, RI McGeachan, CS Durrant… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline in older
individuals accompanied by the presence of two pathological protein aggregates—amyloid …

Synergy between amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer's disease

MA Busche, BT Hyman - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) present with both extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ)
plaques and intracellular tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. For many years …

Therapeutic approach to Alzheimer's disease: current treatments and new perspectives

T Pardo-Moreno, A González-Acedo… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia. The pathophysiology of
this disease is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-β, leading to the formation of …

The human connectome in Alzheimer disease—relationship to biomarkers and genetics

M Yu, O Sporns, AJ Saykin - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2021 - nature.com
The pathology of Alzheimer disease (AD) damages structural and functional brain networks,
resulting in cognitive impairment. The results of recent connectomics studies have now …

Connectome-based modelling of neurodegenerative diseases: towards precision medicine and mechanistic insight

JW Vogel, N Corriveau-Lecavalier… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are the most common cause of dementia. Although their
underlying molecular pathologies have been identified, there is substantial heterogeneity in …

Spread of pathological tau proteins through communicating neurons in human Alzheimer's disease

JW Vogel, Y Iturria-Medina, OT Strandberg… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tau is a hallmark pathology of Alzheimer's disease, and animal models have suggested that
tau spreads from cell to cell through neuronal connections, facilitated by β-amyloid (A β). We …

The cortical origin and initial spread of medial temporal tauopathy in Alzheimer's disease assessed with positron emission tomography

JS Sanchez, JA Becker, HIL Jacobs… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Advances in molecular positron emission tomography (PET) have enabled anatomic
tracking of brain pathology in longitudinal studies of normal aging and dementia, including …

Patient-centered connectivity-based prediction of tau pathology spread in Alzheimer's disease

N Franzmeier, A Dewenter, L Frontzkowski… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the Braak staging scheme suggests a stereotypical tau
spreading pattern that does, however, not capture interindividual variability in tau deposition …

Causation in neuroscience: Keeping mechanism meaningful

LN Ross, DS Bassett - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
A fundamental goal of research in neuroscience is to uncover the causal structure of the
brain. This focus on causation makes sense, because causal information can provide …

Earlier Alzheimer's disease onset is associated with tau pathology in brain hub regions and facilitated tau spreading

L Frontzkowski, M Ewers, M Brendel, D Biel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), younger symptom onset is associated with accelerated disease
progression and tau spreading, yet the mechanisms underlying faster disease manifestation …