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 …

Research criteria for the behavioral variant of Alzheimer disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

R Ossenkoppele, EH Singleton, C Groot… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The behavioral variant of Alzheimer disease (bvAD) is characterized by early
and predominant behavioral deficits caused by AD pathology. This AD phenotype is …

Regional Aβ-tau interactions promote onset and acceleration of Alzheimer's disease tau spreading

WJ Lee, JA Brown, HR Kim, R La Joie, H Cho, CH Lyoo… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Amyloid-beta and tau are key molecules in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, but it
remains unclear how these proteins interact to promote disease. Here, by combining cross …

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 …

Functional brain architecture is associated with the rate of tau accumulation in Alzheimer's disease

N Franzmeier, J Neitzel, A Rubinski, R Smith… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In Alzheimer's diseases (AD), tau pathology is strongly associated with cognitive decline.
Preclinical evidence suggests that tau spreads across connected neurons in an activity …

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 …

Network Tau spreading is vulnerable to the expression gradients of APOE and glutamatergic-related genes

V Montal, I Diez, CM Kim, W Orwig… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
A key hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is the intracellular accumulation of tau
protein in the form of neurofibrillary tangles across large-scale networks of the human brain …

Cortical hypometabolism reflects local atrophy and tau pathology in symptomatic Alzheimer's disease

A Strom, L Iaccarino, L Edwards, OH Lesman-Segev… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Posterior cortical hypometabolism measured with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET is a
well-known marker of Alzheimer's disease-related neurodegeneration, but its associations …

Network models to enhance the translational impact of cross-species studies

JK Brynildsen, K Rajan, MX Henderson… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Neuroscience studies are often carried out in animal models for the purpose of
understanding specific aspects of the human condition. However, the translation of findings …

Medial temporal lobe networks in Alzheimer's disease: structural and molecular vulnerabilities

R de Flores, SR Das, L Xie, LEM Wisse… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is connected to the rest of the brain through two main
networks: the anterior-temporal (AT) and the posterior-medial (PM) systems. Given the …