Tag: Alzheimer

Subcortical Neuronal Correlates of Sleep in Neurodegenerative Diseases

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Importance Sleep disturbance is common among patients with neurodegenerative diseases. Examining the subcortical neuronal correlates of sleep disturbances is important to understanding the early-stage sleep neurodegenerative phenomena. Objectives To examine the correlation between the number of important subcortical wake-promoting neurons and clinical sleep phenotypes in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) or progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). …

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Midlife lipid and glucose levels are associated with Alzheimer’s disease

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IntroductionIt is unknown whether vascular and metabolic diseases assessed in early adulthood are associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) later in life. MethodsAssociation of AD with lipid fractions, glucose, blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), and smoking obtained prospectively from 4932 Framingham Heart Study (FHS) participants across nine quadrennial examinations was evaluated using Cox proportional hazard …

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Longitudinal Associations of Mental Disorders With Dementia30-Year Analysis of 1.7 Million New Zealand Citizens

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Mental disorders are an underappreciated category of modifiable risk factors for dementia. Developing an evidence base about the link between mental disorders and dementia risk requires studies that use large, representative samples, consider the full range of psychiatric conditions, ascertain mental disorders from early life, use long follow-ups, and distinguish between Alzheimer disease and related …

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Validation of Plasma Amyloid-β 42/40 for Detecting Alzheimer Disease Amyloid Plaques

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AbstractBackground and Objectives To determine the diagnostic accuracy of a plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 assay in classifying amyloid PET status across global research studies using samples collected by multiple centers that utilize different blood collection and processing protocols. Methods Plasma samples (n = 465) were obtained from 3 large Alzheimer disease (AD) research cohorts in the United …

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Neurophysiological and Brain Structural Markers of Cognitive Frailty Differ from Alzheimer’s Disease

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With increasing life span and prevalence of dementia, it is important to understand the mechanisms of cognitive aging. Here, we focus on a subgroup of the population we term “cognitively frail,” defined by reduced cognitive function in the absence of subjective memory complaints, or a clinical diagnosis of dementia. Cognitive frailty is distinct from cognitive …

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