The road to restoring neural circuits for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

RG Canter, J Penney, LH Tsai - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive loss of memory and cognition, for which there is no
cure. Although genetic studies initially suggested a primary role for amyloid-in Alzheimer's …

Thalamic pathology and memory loss in early Alzheimer's disease: moving the focus from the medial temporal lobe to Papez circuit

JP Aggleton, A Pralus, AJD Nelson, M Hornberger - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
It is widely assumed that incipient protein pathology in the medial temporal lobe instigates
the loss of episodic memory in Alzheimer's disease, one of the earliest cognitive deficits in …

Fibre-specific white matter reductions in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

R Mito, D Raffelt, T Dhollander, DN Vaughan… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Alzheimer's disease is increasingly considered a large-scale network disconnection
syndrome, associated with progressive aggregation of pathological proteins, cortical …

Automated segmentation of the hypothalamus and associated subunits in brain MRI

B Billot, M Bocchetta, E Todd, AV Dalca, JD Rohrer… - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite the crucial role of the hypothalamus in the regulation of the human body,
neuroimaging studies of this structure and its nuclei are scarce. Such scarcity partially stems …

Where do you know what you know? The representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain

K Patterson, PJ Nestor, TT Rogers - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2007 - nature.com
Mr M, a patient with semantic dementia—a neurodegenerative disease that is characterized
by the gradual deterioration of semantic memory—was being driven through the countryside …

Hippocampal–diencephalic–cingulate networks for memory and emotion: An anatomical guide

EJ Bubb, L Kinnavane… - Brain and neuroscience …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This review brings together current knowledge from tract tracing studies to update and
reconsider those limbic connections initially highlighted by Papez for their presumed role in …

Ways toward an early diagnosis in Alzheimer's disease: the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)

SG Mueller, MW Weiner, LJ Thal, RC Petersen… - Alzheimer's & …, 2005 - Elsevier
With the increasing life expectancy in developed countries, the incidence of Alzheimer's
disease (AD) and thus its socioeconomic impact are growing. Increasing knowledge over …

Brain glucose metabolism in the early and specific diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: FDG-PET studies in MCI and AD

L Mosconi - European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular …, 2005 - Springer
The demographics of aging suggest a great need for the early diagnosis of dementia and
the development of preventive strategies. Neuropathology and structural MRI studies have …

Multicenter standardized 18F-FDG PET diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, and other dementias

L Mosconi, WH Tsui, K Herholz, A Pupi… - Journal of nuclear …, 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
This multicenter study examined 18F-FDG PET measures in the differential diagnosis of
Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and dementia with Lewy bodies …

Brain glucose hypometabolism and oxidative stress in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

L Mosconi, A Pupi, MJ De Leon - … of the New York Academy of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
One of the main features of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the severe reduction of the cerebral
metabolic rate for glucose (CMRglc). In vivo imaging using positron emission tomography …