Current advances in digital cognitive assessment for preclinical Alzheimer's disease

F Öhman, J Hassenstab, D Berron… - Alzheimer's & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is a pressing need to capture and track subtle cognitive change at the preclinical
stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD) rapidly, cost‐effectively, and with high sensitivity …

Mnemonic similarity task: A tool for assessing hippocampal integrity

SM Stark, CB Kirwan, CEL Stark - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
The hippocampus is critical for learning and memory, relying in part on pattern separation
processes supported by the dentate gyrus (DG) to prevent interference from overlapping …

Medial temporal lobe connectivity and its associations with cognition in early Alzheimer's disease

D Berron, D van Westen, R Ossenkoppele… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Human episodic memory critically depends on subregions of the medial temporal lobe,
which are part of functional brain systems such as the anterior-temporal and the posterior …

Neural dedifferentiation in the aging brain

JD Koen, MD Rugg - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Many cognitive abilities decline with age even in the absence of detectable pathology.
Recent evidence indicates that age-related neural dedifferentiation, operationalized in terms …

Differentiation of mild cognitive impairment using an entorhinal cortex-based test of virtual reality navigation

D Howett, A Castegnaro, K Krzywicka, J Hagman… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The entorhinal cortex is one of the first regions to exhibit neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's
disease, and as such identification of entorhinal cortex dysfunction may aid detection of the …

Alzheimer's pathology targets distinct memory networks in the ageing brain

A Maass, D Berron, TM Harrison, JN Adams, R La Joie… - brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Alzheimer's disease researchers have been intrigued by the selective regional vulnerability
of the brain to amyloid-β plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles. Post-mortem studies …

[HTML][HTML] Big-loop recurrence within the hippocampal system supports integration of information across episodes

R Koster, MJ Chadwick, Y Chen, D Berron, A Banino… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Recent evidence challenges the widely held view that the hippocampus is specialized for
episodic memory, by demonstrating that it also underpins the integration of information …

Cortical tau deposition follows patterns of entorhinal functional connectivity in aging

JN Adams, A Maass, TM Harrison, SL Baker, WJ Jagust - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Tau pathology first appears in the transentorhinal and anterolateral entorhinal cortex (alEC)
in the aging brain. The transition to Alzheimer's disease (AD) is hypothesized to involve …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid induced hyperexcitability in default mode network drives medial temporal hyperactivity and early tau accumulation

J Giorgio, JN Adams, A Maass, WJ Jagust… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
In early Alzheimer's disease (AD) β-amyloid (Aβ) deposits throughout association cortex and
tau appears in the entorhinal cortex (EC). Why these initially appear in disparate locations is …

Hippocampal maturation drives memory from generalization to specificity

A Keresztes, CT Ngo, U Lindenberger… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2018 - cell.com
During early ontogeny, the rapid and cumulative acquisition of world knowledge contrasts
with slower improvements in the ability to lay down detailed and long-lasting episodic …