Challenges and hopes for Alzheimer's disease

SA Tatulian - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent drug development efforts targeting Alzheimer's disease (AD) have failed to produce
effective disease-modifying agents for many reasons, including the substantial …

Deep brain stimulation: current challenges and future directions

AM Lozano, N Lipsman, H Bergman, P Brown… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The clinical use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) is among the most important advances in
the clinical neurosciences in the past two decades. As a surgical tool, DBS can directly …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal deep brain stimulation sites and networks for stimulation of the fornix in Alzheimer's disease

AS Ríos, S Oxenford, C Neudorfer, K Butenko… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) to the fornix is an investigational treatment for patients with
mild Alzheimer's Disease. Outcomes from randomized clinical trials have shown that …

Finding the engram

SA Josselyn, S Köhler, PW Frankland - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Many attempts have been made to localize the physical trace of a memory, or engram, in the
brain. However, until recently, engrams have remained largely elusive. In this Review, we …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroprosthetics: from sensorimotor to cognitive disorders

A Gupta, N Vardalakis, FB Wagner - Communications biology, 2023 - nature.com
Neuroprosthetics is a multidisciplinary field at the interface between neurosciences and
biomedical engineering, which aims at replacing or modulating parts of the nervous system …

Down syndrome and the complexity of genome dosage imbalance

SE Antonarakis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Down syndrome (also known as trisomy 21) is the model human phenotype for all genomic
gain dosage imbalances, including microduplications. The functional genomic exploration of …

A phase I trial of deep brain stimulation of memory circuits in Alzheimer's disease

AW Laxton, DF Tang‐Wai, MP McAndrews… - Annals of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by functional impairment in the neural
elements and circuits underlying cognitive and memory functions. We hypothesized that …

Biomarkers for closed-loop deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease and beyond

W Bouthour, P Mégevand, J Donoghue… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Subthalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson disease (PD) currently requires
laborious open-loop programming, which can mitigate the benefits of this treatment …

Memory enhancement and deep-brain stimulation of the entorhinal area

N Suthana, Z Haneef, J Stern, R Mukamel… - … England Journal of …, 2012 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The medial temporal structures, including the hippocampus and the entorhinal
cortex, are critical for the ability to transform daily experience into lasting memories. We …

[HTML][HTML] Neurotechnologies for human cognitive augmentation: current state of the art and future prospects

C Cinel, D Valeriani, R Poli - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recent advances in neuroscience have paved the way to innovative applications that
cognitively augment and enhance humans in a variety of contexts. This paper aims at …