The UK Biobank imaging enhancement of 100,000 participants: rationale, data collection, management and future directions

TJ Littlejohns, J Holliday, LM Gibson, S Garratt… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
UK Biobank is a population-based cohort of half a million participants aged 40–69 years
recruited between 2006 and 2010. In 2014, UK Biobank started the world's largest multi …

Education and cognitive functioning across the life span

M Lövdén, L Fratiglioni, MM Glymour… - … science in the …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive abilities are important predictors of educational and occupational performance,
socioeconomic attainment, health, and longevity. Declines in cognitive abilities are linked to …

Heart-brain connections: Phenotypic and genetic insights from magnetic resonance images

B Zhao, T Li, Z Fan, Y Yang, J Shu, X Yang, X Wang… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Cardiovascular health interacts with cognitive and mental health in complex ways, yet little is
known about the phenotypic and genetic links of heart-brain systems. We quantified heart …

Exercise benefits on Alzheimer's disease: State-of-the-science

PL Valenzuela, A Castillo-García, JS Morales… - Ageing research …, 2020 - Elsevier
Although there is no unanimity, growing evidence supports the value of regular physical
exercise to prevent Alzheimer's disease as well as cognitive decline in affected patients …

Cerebral small vessel disease genomics and its implications across the lifespan

M Sargurupremraj, H Suzuki, X Jian… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are the most common brain-imaging feature of cerebral
small vessel disease (SVD), hypertension being the main known risk factor. Here, we …

Associations between grip strength, brain structure, and mental health in> 40,000 participants from the UK Biobank

R Jiang, ML Westwater, S Noble, M Rosenblatt, W Dai… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Grip strength is a widely used and well-validated measure of overall health that
is increasingly understood to index risk for psychiatric illness and neurodegeneration in …

Diagnostic, prognostic, and mechanistic biomarkers of diabetes mellitus-associated cognitive decline

H Ehtewish, A Arredouani, O El-Agnaf - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cognitive dysfunctions such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer's disease (AD),
and other forms of dementia are recognized as common comorbidities of type 2 diabetes …

White matter hyperintensity topography in Alzheimer's disease and links to cognition

A Garnier‐Crussard, S Bougacha, M Wirth… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are often described in Alzheimer's disease
(AD), but their topography and specific relationships with cognition remain unclear. Methods …

Genetic variation, brain, and intelligence differences

IJ Deary, SR Cox, WD Hill - Molecular psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Individual differences in human intelligence, as assessed using cognitive test scores, have a
well-replicated, hierarchical phenotypic covariance structure. They are substantially stable …

White matter hyperintensities across the adult lifespan: relation to age, Aβ load, and cognition

A Garnier-Crussard, S Bougacha, M Wirth… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2020 - Springer
Background White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are very frequent in older adults and
associated with worse cognitive performance. Little is known about the links between WMH …