Accelerated brain change in healthy adults is associated with genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease and uncovers adult lifespan memory decline

JM Roe, D Vidal-Pineiro, O Sorensen, H Grydeland… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Across healthy adult life our brains undergo gradual structural change in a pattern of atrophy
that resembles accelerated brain changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, using four …

Genetic, clinical underpinnings of subtle early brain change along Alzheimer's dimensions

J Wen, Z Yang, IM Nasrallah, Y Cui, G Erus… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with heterogeneous atrophy patterns,, which are
increasingly manifested throughout the disease course, driven by underlying …

Cell-type-specific Alzheimer's disease polygenic risk scores are associated with distinct disease processes in Alzheimer's disease

HS Yang, L Teng, D Kang, V Menon, T Ge… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Many of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk genes are specifically expressed in microglia and
astrocytes, but how and when the genetic risk localizing to these cell types contributes to AD …

A genome-wide scan for common variants affecting the rate of age-related cognitive decline

PL De Jager, JM Shulman, LB Chibnik, BT Keenan… - Neurobiology of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Age-related cognitive decline is likely promoted by accumulated brain injury due to chronic
conditions of aging, including neurodegenerative and vascular disease. Because common …

The bidirectional causal effects of brain morphology across the life course and risk of Alzheimer's disease: A cross-cohort comparison and Mendelian randomization …

R Korologou-Linden, B Xu, E Coulthard, E Walton… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Neuropathological changes associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) can occur decades
before clinical symptoms. We investigated whether neurodevelopment and/or …

Brain changes in older adults at very low risk for Alzheimer's disease

AM Fjell, L McEvoy, D Holland, AM Dale… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease (AD) has a slow onset, so it is challenging to distinguish brain changes
in healthy elderly persons from incipient AD. One-year brain changes with a distinct …

Pathway-specific genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease differentiates regional patterns of cortical atrophy in older adults

S Caspers, ME Röckner, C Jockwitz, N Bittner… - Cerebral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Brain aging is highly variable and represents a challenge to delimit aging from disease
processes. Moreover, genetic factors may influence both aging and disease. Here we …

Neuroimaging Markers of Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease in Cognitively Healthy Cohorts

TM Harrison - 2016 - escholarship.org
Drugs developed to slow, halt or reverse the progression of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) have
failed to alter the course of the disease in clinical trials. One possible explanation is that …

Lifestyle Factors That Promote Brain Structural Resilience in Individuals with Genetic Risk Factors for Dementia

E Haddad, S Javid, N Dhinagar, AH Zhu, P Lam… - … Workshop on Machine …, 2022 - Springer
Structural brain changes are commonly detectable on MRI before the progressive loss of
cognitive function that occurs in individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias …

Brain atrophy trajectories predict differential functional performance in Alzheimer's disease: Moderations with apolipoprotein E and sex

S Sapkota, J Ramirez, V Yhap… - Alzheimer's & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction We examine whether distinct brain atrophy patterns (using brain parenchymal
fraction [BPF]) differentially predict functional performance and decline in Alzheimer's …