α-Synuclein oligomers and fibrils: partners in crime in synucleinopathies

A Bigi, R Cascella, C Cecchi - Neural Regeneration Research, 2023 - journals.lww.com
The misfolding and aggregation of α-synuclein is the general hallmark of a group of
devastating neurodegenerative pathologies referred to as synucleinopathies, such as …

IFN-γ Triggered IFITM2 Expression to Induce Malignant Phenotype in Elderly GBM

T Liang, X Wang, Y Wang, W Ma - Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2023 - Springer
Advanced age is an important risk factor for the worse clinical presentation of gliomas,
especially glioblastoma (GBM). The tumor microenvironment (TME) in elderly GBM (eGBM) …

Advanced brain aging in Parkinson's disease with cognitive impairment

CL Chen, SY Cheng, L Montaser-Kouhsari… - npj Parkinson's …, 2024 - nature.com
Patients with Parkinson's disease and cognitive impairment (PD-CI) deteriorate faster than
those without cognitive impairment (PD-NCI), suggesting an underlying difference in the …

Estimated Brain Age in Healthy Aging and Across Multiple Neurological Disorders

L Chai, J Sun, Z Zhuo, R Wei, X Xu… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background The brain aging in the general population and patients with neurological
disorders is not well understood. Purpose To characterize brain aging in the above …

Brain age in genetic and idiopathic Parkinson's disease

SJ Teipel, H Hoffmann, A Storch… - Brain …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The brain-age gap, ie the difference between the brain age estimated from structural MRI
data and the chronological age of an individual, has been proposed as a summary measure …

Elucidating Multimodal Imaging Patterns in Accelerated Brain Aging: Heterogeneity through a Discriminant Analysis Approach Using the UK Biobank Dataset

L Liu, L Lin, S Sun, S Wu - Bioengineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
Accelerated brain aging (ABA) intricately links with age-associated neurodegenerative and
neuropsychiatric diseases, emphasizing the critical need for a nuanced exploration of …

Understanding the Temporal Dynamics of Accelerated Brain Aging and Resilient Brain Aging: Insights from Discriminative Event-Based Analysis of UK Biobank Data

L Lin, Y Wu, L Liu, S Sun, S Wu - Bioengineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
The intricate dynamics of brain aging, especially the neurodegenerative mechanisms driving
accelerated (ABA) and resilient brain aging (RBA), are pivotal in neuroscience …

Advanced Cognitive Patterns in Multiple System Atrophy Compared to Parkinson's Disease: An Individual Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

H Pang, Z Yu, H Yu, X Li, S Bu, Y Liu, J Wang… - Academic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Rationale and Objectives Although both Multiple system atrophy (MSA) and Parkinson's
disease (PD) belong to alpha-synucleinopathy, they have divergent clinical courses and …

Investigating Dopaminergic Abnormalities in Psychosis with Normative Modelling and Multisite Molecular Neuroimaging

A Giacomel, D Martins, G Nordio, R Easmin, O Howes… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Molecular neuroimaging techniques, like PET and SPECT, offer invaluable insights into the
brain's in-vivo biology and its dysfunction in neuropsychiatric patients. However, the …

Superpixel-ComBat modeling: A joint approach for harmonization and characterization of inter-scanner variability in T1-weighted images

CL Chen, ME Torbati, DS Minhas, CM Laymon… - Imaging …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
T1-weighted imaging holds wide applications in clinical and research settings; however, the
challenge of inter-scanner variability arises when combining data across scanners, which …