Dementia in Latin America: epidemiological evidence and implications for public policy

N Custodio, A Wheelock, D Thumala… - Frontiers in aging …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Population aging is among the most important global transformations. Today, 12% of the
world population is of age 60 and over and by the middle of this century this segment will …

Relevance of biomarkers across different neurodegenerative diseases

AJ Ehrenberg, A Khatun, E Coomans, MJ Betts… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2020 - Springer
Background The panel of fluid-and imaging-based biomarkers available for
neurodegenerative disease research is growing and has the potential to close important …

Molecular characterization of selectively vulnerable neurons in Alzheimer's disease

K Leng, E Li, R Eser, A Piergies, R Sit, M Tan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the selective vulnerability of specific neuronal
populations, the molecular signatures of which are largely unknown. To identify and …

Locus coeruleus volume and cell population changes during Alzheimer's disease progression: a stereological study in human postmortem brains with potential …

P Theofilas, AJ Ehrenberg, S Dunlop, ATDL Alho… - Alzheimer's & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression follows a specific spreading pattern,
emphasizing the need to characterize those brain areas that degenerate first. The …

Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled‐up primate brain

FAC Azevedo, LRB Carvalho… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The human brain is often considered to be the most cognitively capable among mammalian
brains and to be much larger than expected for a mammal of our body size. Although the …

Global and local ancestry modulate APOE association with Alzheimer's neuropathology and cognitive outcomes in an admixed sample

MS Naslavsky, CK Suemoto, LA Brito, MO Scliar… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Dementia is more prevalent in Blacks than in Whites, likely due to a combination of
environmental and biological factors. Paradoxically, clinical studies suggest an attenuation …

Quantifying the accretion of hyperphosphorylated tau in the locus coeruleus and dorsal raphe nucleus: the pathological building blocks of early Alzheimer's disease

AJ Ehrenberg, AK Nguy, P Theofilas… - Neuropathology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Hyperphosphorylated tau neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions (ht‐NCI) are the best
protein correlate of clinical decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Qualitative evidence …

Neuropathologic correlates of psychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease

AJ Ehrenberg, CK Suemoto… - Journal of …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Clarifying the relationships between neuropsychiatric symptoms and Alzheimer's disease
(AD)-related pathology may open avenues for effective treatments. Here, we investigate the …

d-serine levels in Alzheimer's disease: implications for novel biomarker development

C Madeira, MV Lourenco, C Vargas-Lopes… - Translational …, 2015 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a severe neurodegenerative disorder still in search of effective
methods of diagnosis. Altered levels of the NMDA receptor co-agonist, d-serine, have been …

Subregional basal forebrain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease: a multicenter study

I Kilimann, M Grothe, H Heinsen… - Journal of …, 2014 - content.iospress.com
Histopathological studies in Alzheimer's disease (AD) suggest severe and region-specific
neurodegeneration of the basal forebrain cholinergic system (BFCS). Here, we studied the …