Acute phase markers in CSF reveal inflammatory changes in Alzheimer’s disease that intersect with pathology, APOE ε4, sex and age.

14 June, 2020

Prog Neurobiol. 2020 Aug 31:101904.

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Image reconstruction methods affect software-aided assessment of pathologies of [18F]flutemetamol and [18F]FDG brain-PET examinations in patients with neurodegenerative diseases.

Neuroimage Clin. 2020;28:102386.

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Validation of a spatial normalization method using a principal component derived adaptive template for [18F]florbetaben PET.

Am J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2020 Aug 25;10(4):161-167. eCollection 2020.

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Medial temporal atrophy in preclinical dementia: Visual and automated assessment during six year follow-up.

Neuroimage Clin. 2020 Jun 10;27:102310.

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The effects of tau, amyloid and white matter lesions on mobility, dual tasking and balance in older people.

J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2020 Jun 7:glaa143.

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Spread of pathological tau proteins through communicating neurons in human Alzheimer’s disease.

Nat Commun. 2020 May 26;11(1):2612.

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Biomarker profiling beyond amyloid and tau: cerebrospinal fluid markers, hippocampal atrophy, and memory change in cognitively unimpaired older adults.

Neurobiol Aging. 2020 Sep;93:1-15.

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CDH6 and HAGH protein levels in plasma associate with Alzheimer’s disease in APOE ε4 carriers.

Sci Rep. 2020 May 19;10(1):8233.

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Aβ deposition is associated with increases in soluble and phosphorylated tau that precede a positive Tau PET in Alzheimer’s disease

Sci Adv. 2020 Apr 15;6(16):eaaz2387.

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The implications of different approaches to define AT(N) in Alzheimer disease.

Neurology. 2020 May 26;94(21):e2233-e2244

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Diagnostic Performance of RO948 F 18 Tau Positron Emission Tomography in the Differentiation of Alzheimer Disease From Other Neurodegenerative Disorders.

JAMA Neurol. 2020 May 11:e200989.

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Blood phosphorylated tau 181 as a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease: a diagnostic performance and prediction modelling study using data from four prospective cohorts.

Lancet Neurol. 2020 May;19(5):422-433.

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Relationship between cortical iron and tau aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease.

Brain. 2020 May 1;143(5):1341-1349.

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

Brain. 2020 Apr 1;143(4):1233-1248.

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Cerebrospinal fluid p-tau217 performs better than p-tau181 as a biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease.

Nat Commun. 2020 Apr 3;11(1):1683.

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The age-related effect on cognitive performance in cognitively healthy elderly is mainly caused by underlying AD pathology or cerebrovascular lesions: implications for cutoffs regarding cognitive impairment.

Alzheimers Res Ther. 2020 Mar 24;12(1):30.

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Towards unconstrained compartment modeling in white matter using diffusion-relaxation MRI with tensor-valued diffusion encoding.

Reson Med. 2020 Sep;84(3):1605-1623.

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Longitudinal degeneration of the basal forebrain predicts subsequent dementia in Parkinson’s disease.

Neurobiol Dis. 2020 Mar 4, 2020-06-01, Volume 139, Article 104831

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[18F]Flortaucipir Distinguishes Alzheimer’s disease from progressive supranuclear palsy pathology in a mixed-pathology case.

Acta Neuropathol 2020 Feb;139(2):411-413.

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Cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin in an inducible mouse model of neurodegeneration: A translatable marker of synaptic degeneration. 

Neurobiol Dis. 2020 Feb;134:104645.

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Head-to-head comparison of tau positron emission tomography tracers  [18F]flortaucipir and [18F]RO948.

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2020 Feb;47(2):342-354.

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Apathy and anxiety are early markers of Alzheimer’s disease.

Neurobiol Aging. 2020 Jan;85:74-82.

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Functional brain architecture is associated with the rate of tau accumulation in Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). Nat Commun. 2020 Jan 17;11(1):347.

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Cognitively normal women with Alzheimer’s disease proteinopathy show relative preservation of memory but not of hippocampal volume.

13 June, 2019

Alzheimers Res Ther. 2019 Dec 26;11(1):109.

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Cerebrospinal fluid levels of neurogranin in Parkinsonian disorders.

Mov Disord. 2020 Mar;35(3):513-518.

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Diffusion Tensor MRI to Distinguish Progressive Supranuclear Palsy from α-Synucleinopathies. 

Radiology. 2019 Dec;293(3):646-653.

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Amyloid and tau accumulate across distinct spatial networks and are differentially associated with brain connectivity.

Elife. 2019 Dec 9;8:e50830.

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Predicting Clinical decline and conversion to Alzheimer’s disease or dementia using novel Elecsys Aβ(1-42), pTau and tTau CSF immunoassays

Sci Rep. 2019 Dec 13;9(1):19024.

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Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma biomarker trajectories with increasing amyloid deposition in Alzheimer’s disease.

EMBO Mol Med. 2019 Dec;11(12):e11170.

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Multiplex proteomics identifies novel CSF and plasma biomarkers of early Alzheimer’s disease. 

Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2019 Nov 6;7(1):169.

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A quick test of cognitive speed can predict development of dementia in Parkinson’s disease. 

Sci Rep. 2019 Oct 28;9(1):15417.

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Autocatalytic amplification of Alzheimer-associated Aβ42 peptide aggregation in human cerebrospinal fluid.

Commun Biol. 2019 Oct 8;2:365.

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Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Biomarker-based prognosis for people with mild cognitive impairment (ABIDE): a modelling study.

Lancet Neurol. 2019 Nov;18(11):1034-1044

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Endo-lysosomal proteins and ubiquitin CSF concentrations in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. 

Alzheimers Res Ther. 2019 Sep 14;11(1):82

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Increased functional connectivity of thalamic subdivisions in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

PLoS One. 2019 Sep 4;14(9):e0222002.

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β-amyloid pathology and hippocampal atrophy are independently associated with memory function in cognitively healthy elderly. 

Sci Rep. 2019 Aug 1;9(1):11180.

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α-synuclein-lipoprotein interactions and elevated ApoE level in cerebrospinal fluid from Parkinson’s disease patients.  

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jul 23;116(30):15226-15235.

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Determining clinically meaningful decline in preclinical Alzheimer disease.

Neurology. 2019 Jul 23;93(4):e322-e333.

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Towards a unified protocol for handling of CSF before β-amyloid measurements. 

Alzheimers Res Ther. 2019 Jul 19;11(1):63.

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Staging β-Amyloid Pathology With Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography. 

JAMA Neurol. 2019 Jul 17;76(11)

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Low prevalence of known pathogenic mutations in dominant PD genes: A Swedish multicenter study.

Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2019 Sep 6.

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European Ultrahigh-Field Imaging Network for Neurodegenerative Diseases (EUFIND). 

Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2019 Jul 31;11:538-549.

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Performance of Fully Automated Plasma Assays as Screening Tests for Alzheimer Disease-Related β-Amyloid Status. 

JAMA Neurol. 2019 Sep; 76(9): 1060–1069

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Levels of islet amyloid polypeptide in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma from patients with Alzheimer’s disease. 

PLoS One. 2019 Jun 17;14(6):e0218561.

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Mapping of apparent susceptibility yields promising diagnostic separation of progressive supranuclear palsy from other causes of parkinsonism. 

Sci Rep. 2019 Apr 15;9(1):6079.

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Association Between Earliest Amyloid Uptake and Functional Connectivity in Cognitively Unimpaired Elderly. 

Cereb Cortex. 2019 May 1;29(5):2173-2182

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Searching for the neurite density with diffusion MRI: Challenges for biophysical modeling. 

Hum Brain Mapp. 2019 Jun 1;40(8):2529-2545.

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Structural imaging findings on non-enhanced computed tomography are severely underreported in the primary care diagnostic work-up of subjective cognitive decline.

Neuroradiology. 2019 Apr;61(4):397-404.

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Cerebrospinal Fluid Concentrations of Extracellular Matrix Proteins in Alzheimer’s Disease. 

J Alzheimers Dis. 2019;69(4):1213-1220

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CSF placental growth factor – a novel candidate biomarker of frontotemporal dementia. 

Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2019 Mar 29;6(5):863-872.

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Accurate risk estimation of β-amyloid positivity to identify prodromal Alzheimer’s disease: Cross-validation study of practical algorithms. 

Alzheimers Dement. 2019 Feb;15(2):194-204.

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Association of IL1RAP-related genetic variation with cerebrospinal fluid concentration of Alzheimer-associated tau protein. 

Sci Rep. 2019 Feb 21;9(1):2460.

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Data-driven approaches for tau-PET imaging biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease.

Hum Brain Mapp. 2019 Feb 1;40(2):638-651.

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Predicting diagnosis and cognition with 18F-AV-1451 tau PET and structural MRI in Alzheimer’s disease. 

Alzheimers Dement. 2019 Apr;15(4):570-580.

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Associations between tau, Aβ, and cortical thickness with cognition in Alzheimer disease. 

Neurology. 2019 Feb 5;92(6):e601-e612.

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Brain myoinositol as a potential marker of amyloid-related pathology: A longitudinal study. 

Neurology. 2019 Jan 29; 92(5): e395–e405

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Novel tau fragments in cerebrospinal fluid: relation to tangle pathology and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease. 

Acta Neuropathol. 2019 Feb;137(2):279-296.

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Discriminative Accuracy of [18F]flortaucipir Positron Emission Tomography for Alzheimer Disease vs Other Neurodegenerative Disorders.

8 November, 2018

Importance: The positron emission tomography (PET) tracer flortaucipir allows in vivo quantification of paired helical filament tau, a core neuropathological feature of Alzheimer disease (AD), but its diagnostic utility is unclear. Objective: To examine the discriminative accuracy of flortaucipir for AD vs non-AD neurodegenerative disorders. Design, Setting, and Participants: In this cross-sectional study, 719 participants

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Molecular properties underlying regional vulnerability to Alzheimer’s disease pathology.

Amyloid deposition and neurofibrillary degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease specifically affect discrete neuronal systems, but the underlying mechanisms that render some brain regions more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease pathology than others remain largely unknown. Here we studied molecular properties underlying these distinct regional vulnerabilities by analysing Alzheimer’s disease-typical neuroimaging patterns of amyloid deposition and neurodegeneration in

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CSF biomarkers of neuroinflammation and cerebrovascular dysfunction in early Alzheimer disease.

OBJECTIVE: To measure CSF levels of biomarkers reflecting microglia and astrocytes activation, neuroinflammation, and cerebrovascular changes and study their associations with the core biomarkers of Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology (β-amyloid and tau), structural imaging correlates, and clinical disease progression over time. METHODS: The study included cognitively unimpaired elderly (n = 508), patients with mild

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Correlation of In Vivo [18F]Flortaucipir With Postmortem Alzheimer Disease Tau Pathology.

13 June, 2018

JAMA Neurol. 2019 Mar; 76(3): 310–31

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Exploring causality of the association between smoking and Parkinson’s disease.

Int J Epidemiol. 2019 Jun; 48(3): 912–925.

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Effects of APOE ε4 on neuroimaging, cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, and cognition in prodromal Alzheimer’s disease.

Neurobiol Aging. 2018 Nov;71:81-90.

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Prevalence of amyloid-β pathology in distinct variants of primary progressive aphasia.  

Ann Neurol. 2018 Nov;84(5):729-740.

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Parkinson’s disease: evolution of cognitive impairment and CSF Aβ1-42 profiles in a prospective longitudinal study.  

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2019 Feb;90(2):165-170.

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Cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of inflammatory markers in Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonian disorders.

Sci Rep. 2018 Sep 5;8(1):13276.

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Greater tau load and reduced cortical thickness in APOE ε4-negative Alzheimer’s disease: a cohort study. 

Alzheimers Res Ther. 2018 Aug 7;10(1):77.

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Regional times to equilibria and their impact on semi-quantification of [18F]AV-1451 uptake.

J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2018 Aug 3:271678X18791430.

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The impact of preanalytical variables on measuring cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis: A Review.  

Alzheimers Dement. 2018-10-01, Volume 14, Issue 10, Pages 1313-133.

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Is longitudinal tau PET ready for use in Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials?

Brain. 2018 May 1;141(5):1241-1244.

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Slowly progressive dementia caused by MAPT R406W mutations: longitudinal report on a new kindred and systematic Review.

Alzheimers Res Ther. 2018 Jan 9;10(1):2.

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Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Amyloid pathology in the progression to mild cognitive impairment.

Neurobiol Aging. 2018 Apr;64:76-84.

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Altered structural network organization in cognitively normal individuals with amyloid pathology. 

Neurobiol Aging. 2018 Apr;64:15-24.

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Association of Cerebral Amyloid-β Aggregation With Cognitive Functioning in Persons Without Dementia.

JAMA   Psychiatry. 2018 Jan 1;75(1):84-95.

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Amyloid Network Topology Characterizes the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease During the Predementia Stages.

Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Cereb Cortex. 2018 Jan 1;28(1):340-349.

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Amyloid blood biomarker detects Alzheimer’s disease.

EMBO Mol Med. 2018 May;10(5). pii:e8763.

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Prevalence of the apolipoprotein E ε4 allele in amyloid β positive subjects across the spectrum of Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimers Dement. 2018-07-01, Volume 14, Issue 7, Pages 913-92

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Striatal changes in Parkinson disease: An investigation of morphology, functional connectivity and their relationship to clinical symptoms.

Psychiatry Res. 2018 May 30;275:5-13

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18F-AV-1451 in Parkinson’s Disease with and without dementia and in Dementia with Lewy Bodies.  

Sci Rep. 2018 Mar 16;8(1):4717.

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Assessment of kallikrein 6 as a cross-sectional and longitudinal biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease. 

Alzheimers Res Ther. 2018 Jan 29;10(1):9.

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Alteration of putaminal fractional anisotropy in Parkinson’s disease: a longitudinal diffusion kurtosis imaging study. 

Neuroradiology. 2018  Mar;60(3):247-254.

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Comparing 18F-AV-1451 with CSF T-tau and P-tau for diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. 

16 April, 2018

OBJECTIVE: To compare PET imaging of tau pathology with CSF measurements (total tau and phosphorylated tau ) in terms of diagnostic performance for Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS: We compared t-tau and p-tau and 18F-AV-1451 in 30 controls, 14 patients with prodromal AD, and 39 patients with Alzheimerdementia, recruited from the Swedish BioFINDER study. All

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CSF biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease concord with amyloid-β PET and predict clinical progression: A study of fully automated immunoassays in BioFINDER and ADNI cohorts.

INTRODUCTION: We studied whether fully automated Elecsys cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) immunoassay results were concordant with positron emission tomography (PET) and predicted clinical progression, even with cutoffs established in an independent cohort. METHODS: Cutoffs for Elecsys amyloid-β1-42 (Aβ), total tau/Aβ(1-42), and phosphorylated tau/Aβ(1-42) were defined against flutemetamol PET in Swedish BioFINDER (n = 277) and validated against florbetapir

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Increased midlife triglycerides predict brain β-amyloid and tau pathology 20 years later

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of midlife lipid levels on Alzheimer brain pathology 20 years later in cognitively normal elderly individuals. METHODS: This is a longitudinal cohort study of 318 cognitively normal individuals with data on fasting lipid levels at midlife (mean age 54 years). Presence of β-amyloid (Aβ) and tau pathologies 20 years later

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Performance of Different Amyloid Immunoassays in Predicting Outcome of Visual Assessment of Amyloid PET Imaging

25 August, 2017

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The interactive effect of demographic and clinical factors on hippocampal volume: A multicohort study on 1958 cognitively normal individuals.

27 June, 2017

The interactive effect of demographic and clinical factors on hippocampal volume: A multicohort study on 1958 cognitively normal individuals.

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Abnormal Structural Brain Connectome in Individuals with Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease.

13 June, 2017

Hansson O. Cereb Cortex. 2017 Oct 3:1-12.

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The effect of white matter hyperintensities on statistical analysis of diffusion tensor imaging in cognitively healthy elderly and prodromal Alzheimer’s disease.

PLoS One. 2017 Sep 21;12(9):e0185239.  eCollection 2017.

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A novel quantification-driven proteomic strategy identifies an endogenous peptide of pleiotrophin as a new biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease. 

Sci Rep. 2017 Oct 17;7(1):13333.

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CSF/serum albumin ratio in dementias: a cross-sectional study on 1861 patients.

Neurobiol Aging. 2017 Nov;59:1-9.

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Preclinical effects of APOE ε4 on cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42 concentrations. 

Alzheimers Res Ther. 2017 Oct 23;9(1):87.

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Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid Ubiquitin in Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinsonian Disorders. 

Proteomics Clin Appl. 2017  Dec;11(11-12).

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Association between cerebrospinal fluid and plasma neurodegeneration biomarkers with brain atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease. 

Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Neurobiol Aging. 2017 Oct;58:14-29.

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Earliest accumulation of β-amyloid occurs within the default-mode network and concurrently affects brain connectivity.

Nature communications. 2017 Oct 31;8(1):1214.

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Concordance between different amyloid immunoassays and visual amyloid positron emission tomographic assessment 

JAMA Neurology 2017 Dec 1;74(12):1492-1501.

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Atrophy of the posterior subiculum is associated with memory impairment, tau- and Aβ pathology in non-demented individuals.

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 2017 Sep 20;9:306.

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In vivo retention of (18)F-AV-1451 in corticobasal syndrome.

Neurology. 2017 Aug 22;89(8):845-853.

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Distinct 18F-AV- 1451 tau PET retention patterns in early- and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Brain 2017 Sep 1;140(9):2286-2294.

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18F-AV-1451 and CSF T-tau and P-tau as biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease. 

EMBO Mol Med. 2017 Sep;9(9):1212-1223.

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Recommendations for cerebrospinal fluid collection for the analysis by ELISA of neurogranin trunc P75, α-synuclein, and total tau in combination with Aβ(1-42)/Aβ(1-40).

Alzheimers Res Ther. 2017 Jun 6;9(1):40.

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Psychometric testing of a Swedish version of the Apathy Evaluation Scale.

Nord J Psychiatry. 2017 Aug;71(6):477-484.

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Tau oligomers in cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer’s disease.

Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2017 Mar 1;4(4):226-235.

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Increased blood-brain barrier permeability is associated with dementia and diabetes but not amyloid pathology or APOE genotype.

Neurobiol Aging. 2017 Mar;51:104-112.

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Tau Pathology Distribution in Alzheimer’s disease Corresponds Differentially to Cognition-Relevant Functional Brain Networks.

Front Neurosci. 2017 Mar 31;11:167.

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Tau neuropathology correlates with FDG-PET, but not AV-1451-PET, in progressive supranuclear palsy.

Acta Neuropathol. 2017 Jan;133(1):149-151.

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Blood-based NfL: A biomarker for differential diagnosis of parkinsonian disorder

13 March, 2017

Neurology. 2017 Mar 7;88(10):930-937

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Systematic development of small molecules to inhibit specific microscopic steps of Aβ42 aggregationn in Alzheimer´s disease

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Jan 10;114(2):E200-E208. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1615613114.

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Modeling strategies for quantification of in vivo 18F-AV1451 binding in patients with tau pathology

27 October, 2016

Abstract Aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau is a major hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease. In vivo imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) may offer important insights in pathophysiological mechanisms, diagnosis and disease progression. We describe different strategies for quantification of 18F-AV1451 (T807) tau binding, including models with blood sampling and non-invasive alternatives. METHODS:

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Plasma tau in Alzheimer disease

See comment in PubMed Commons below, Neurology 2016 Oct 25;87(17):1827-1835. Epub 2016 Sep 30.   Abstract OBJECTIVE: To test whether plasma tau is altered in Alzheimer disease (AD) and whether it is related to changes in cognition, CSF biomarkers of AD pathology (including β-amyloid and tau), brain atrophy, and brain metabolism. METHODS: This was

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Increased basal ganglia binding of 18 F-AV-1451 in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy

17 October, 2016

Abstract BACKGROUND: Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is difficult to diagnose accurately. The recently developed tau PET tracers may improve the diagnostic work-up of PSP. METHODS: Regional tau accumulation was studied using 18 F-AV-1451 PET in 11 patients with PSP and 11 age-matched healthy controls in the Swedish BioFinder study. RESULTS: 18 F-AV-1451 standard uptake volume

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Reply: Do we still need positron emission tomography for early Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis?

10 October, 2016

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18F-AV-1451 tau PET imaging correlates strongly with tau neuropathology in MAPT mutation carriers.

Abstract Tau positron emission tomography ligands provide the novel possibility to image tau pathology in vivo However, little is known about how in vivo brain uptake of tau positron emission tomography ligands relates to tau aggregates observed post-mortem. We performed tau positron emission tomography imaging with (18)F-AV-1451 in three patients harbouring a p.R406W mutation in

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Alterations of Diffusion Kurtosis and Neurite Density Measures in Deep Grey Matter and White Matter in Parkinson’s Disease.

In Parkinson’s disease (PD), pathological microstructural changes occur and such changes might be detected using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). However, it is unclear whether dMRI improves PD diagnosis or helps differentiating between phenotypes, such as postural instability gait difficulty (PIGD) and tremor dominant (TD) PD. We included 105 patients with PD and 44 healthy

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Brain activity and Alzheimer’s disease: a complex relationship.

Author information 11 Clinical Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden 2 Memory Clinic, Skåne University Hospital, Sweden Oskar.Hansson@med.lu.se. 23 Experimental Dementia Unit, Department of Experimental Medicine Sciences, Lund University, Sweden.

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Reference measurement procedure for CSF amyloid beta (Aβ)1-42 and the CSF Aβ1-42 /Aβ1-40 ratio – a cross-validation study against amyloid PET.

Abstract A clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is currently made on the basis of results from cognitive tests in combination with medical history and general clinical evaluation, but the peptide amyloid-beta (Aβ) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is increasingly used as a biomarker for amyloid pathology in clinical trials and in recently proposed revised clinical criteria

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Optimized Standard Operating Procedures for the Analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid Aβ42 and the Ratios of Aβ Isoforms Using Low Protein Binding Tubes.

Abstract BACKGROUND: Reduced cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentration of amyloid-β1-42 (Aβ1-42) reflects the presence of amyloidopathy in brains of subjects with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). OBJECTIVE: To qualify the use of Aβ1-42/Aβ1-40 for improvement of standard operating procedures (SOP) for measurement of CSF Aβ with a focus on CSF collection, storage, and analysis. METHODS: Euroimmun ELISAs for

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A Genetic Variant of the Sortilin 1 Gene is Associated with Reduced Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder represented by the accumulation of intracellular tau protein and extracellular deposits of amyloid-β (Aβ) in the brain. The gene sortilin 1 (SORT1) has previously been associated with cardiovascular disease in gene association studies. It has also been proposed to be involved in AD pathogenesis through facilitating Aβ

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Reference measurement procedure for CSF Aβ1-42 and the CSF Aβ1-42 /Aβ1-40 ratio – a cross-validation study against Amyloid PET.

13 June, 2016

J Neurochem. 2016 Nov;139(4):651-658

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Cerebrospinal fluid tau, neurogranin, and neurofilament light in Alzheimer’s disease.

EMBO Mol Med. 2016 Oct 4;8(10):1184-1196

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Plasma β-amyloid in Alzheimer’s disease and vascular disease

10 May, 2016

Implementation of amyloid biomarkers in clinical practice would be accelerated if such biomarkers could be measured in blood. We analyzed plasma levels of Aβ42 and Aβ40 in a cohort of 719 individuals (the Swedish BioFINDER study), including patients with subjective cognitive decline (SCD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia and cognitively healthy elderly,

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Cerebrospinal fluid levels of IL-6 are decreased and correlate with cognitive status in DLB patients.

29 April, 2016

INTRODUCTION: Inflammatory processes have previously been shown to influence cognition and progression of dementia. An involvement of interleukin (IL)-6 has in particular been suggested as altered levels of IL-6 in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been found in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Also, an association between cognitive decline and levels of IL-6 in CSF have

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Extrapolation-Based References Improve Motion and Eddy-Current Correction of High B-Value DWI Data: Application in Parkinson’s Disease Dementia.

PURPOSE: Conventional motion and eddy-current correction, where each diffusion-weighted volume is registered to a non diffusion-weighted reference, suffers from poor accuracy for high b-value data. An alternative approach is to extrapolate reference volumes from low b-value data. We aim to compare the performance of conventional and extrapolation-based correction of diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI) data, and

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Posterior Accumulation of Tau and Concordant Hypometabolism in an Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Patient with Presenilin-1 Mutation.

Abstract It is unclear whether the distribution of tau pathology differs between cases with early-onset familial Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and sporadic AD. We present positron emission tomography (PET) data from a young patient with a presenilin-1 mutation (Thr116Asn). 18F-flutemetamol PET showed a distribution of amyloid-β fibrils similar to sporadic AD. However, the pattern of tau

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Cerebrospinal fluid analysis detects cerebral amyloid-β accumulation earlier than positron emission tomography.

ABSTRACT Cerebral accumulation of amyloid-β is thought to be the starting mechanism in Alzheimer’s disease. Amyloid-β can be detected by analysis of cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-β42or amyloid positron emission tomography, but it is unknown if any of the methods can identify an abnormal amyloid accumulation prior to the other. Our aim was to determine whether cerebrospinal

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Cerebrospinal fluid soluble TREM2 in aging and Alzheimer’s disease.

BACKGROUND: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) neuropathology is associated with neuroinflammation, but there are few useful biomarkers. Mutant variants of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) have recently been linked to late-onset AD and other neurodegenerative disorders. TREM2, a microglial receptor, is involved in innate immunity. A cleaved fragment, soluble TREM2 (sTREM2), is present in

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Longitudinal cerebrospinal fluid biomarker measurements in preclinical sporadic Alzheimer’s disease: A prospective 9-year study

Introduction Ascertainment of the pattern and temporal change of biomarkers in preclinical (asymptomatic) sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD) will increase knowledge about early pathogenesis and facilitate interventional therapeutic trials. Methods In this prospective longitudinal study, repeated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collections and cognitive evaluations were performed in cognitively healthy elderly individuals during a 9-year period. Results Low

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Longitudinal Measurements of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Parkinson’s Disease.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of tau, phosphorylated tau, β-amyloid42 , α-synuclein, neurofilament light, and YKL-40 change over time and if changes correlate with motor progression and/or cognitive decline in patients with PD and controls. METHODS: We included 63 patients with PD (nondemented) and 21 neurologically

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Increased amyloidogenic APP processing in APOE ɛ4-negative individuals with cerebral β-amyloidosis

Abstract Increased APP (amyloid precursor protein) processing causes β-amyloid (Aβ) accumulation in autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but it is unclear if it also affects sporadic Aβ accumulation. We tested healthy controls and patients with mild cognitive symptoms (N=331) in the BioFINDER study, using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Aβ40 as a surrogate for amyloidogenic APP processing.

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Early myo-inositol changes may precede Aβ pathology and relate to APOE genotype in Alzheimer disease

1 February, 2016

Background: We aimed to test whether in vivo levels of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) metabolites myo-inositol, N-acetyl-aspartate and choline are abnormal already during preclinical Alzheimer disease, relating these changes to amyloid and/or tau pathology, and functional connectivity. Methods: In this cross-sectional multi-center study (a subset of the prospective Swedish BioFINDER study) we included four groups,

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Total apolipoprotein E levels and specific isoform composition in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma from Alzheimer’s disease patients and controls.

27 January, 2016

The apolipoprotein E (ApoE) ε4 allele is the strongest risk factor of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD), however, the fluid concentrations of ApoE and its different isoforms (ApoE2, ApoE3 and ApoE4) in AD patients and among APOE genotypes (APOE ε2, ε3, ε4) remain controversial. Using a novel mass spectrometry-based method, we quantified total ApoE and specific ApoE isoform concentrations and potential associations

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Flt3 ligand does not differentiate between Parkinsonian disorders.

BACKGROUND: Differential diagnosis of parkinsonian disorders is challenging because of overlapping symptoms, especially during early stages of disease. No validated biomarkers are available for early and accurate diagnosis of multiple system atrophy and other parkinsonian disorders. It has been reported that flt3 ligand levels in cerebrospinal fluid could clearly differentiate patients with Parkinson’s disease from

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Antibodies against phosphorylcholine are not altered in plasma of patients with Alzheimer’s disease

Background Phosphorylcholine is one of the major epitopes of oxidised low density lipoprotein. Low levels of IgM antibodies against phosphorylcholine (anti-PC) are associated with development of myocardial infarction and stroke. It has been shown that patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias have significantly lower serum anti-PC levels compared to controls, suggesting that low levels

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Alzheimer’s disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarker in cognitively normal subjects.

In a large multicentre sample of cognitively normal subjects, as a function of age, gender and APOE genotype, we studied the frequency of abnormal cerebrospinal fluid levels of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers including: total tau, phosphorylated tau and amyloid-β1-42. Fifteen cohorts from 12 different centres with either enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays or Luminex® measurements were selected for

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Disease-specific structural changes in thalamus and dentatorubrothalamic tract in progressive supranuclear palsy

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study is to identify disease-specific changes of the thalamus, basal ganglia, pons, and midbrain in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and multiple system atrophy with predominant parkinsonism (MSA-P) using diffusion tensor imaging and volumetric analysis. METHODS: MRI diffusion and volumetric data were acquired in a derivation

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Parkinson’s Disease Case Ascertainment in the EPIC Cohort: The NeuroEPIC4PD Study.

BACKGROUND: Large epidemiological prospective studies represent an important opportunity for investigating risk factors for rare diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). Here we describe the procedures we used for ascertaining PD cases in the EPIC (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) study. METHODS: The following three-phase procedure was used: (1) elaboration of a NeuroEPIC4PD

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Cerebral white matter lesions – associations with Aβ isoforms and amyloid PET

Small vessel disease (SVD) and amyloid deposition may promote each other, with a potential association between SVD and altered production or clearance of β-amyloid (Aβ) a ecting its cleavage products. We investigated the relationship between SVD, multiple isoforms of Aβ in cerebrospinal uid (CSF) and cortical Aβ in 831 subjects with cognitive performance ranging from

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Associations between TOMM40 Poly-T Repeat Variants and Dementia in Cases with Parkinsonism

BACKGROUND: Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD)-related pathologies. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role of the Translocase of the Outer Mitochondrial Membrane 40 homolog (TOMM40) variants in PD without dementia (PDND), PD with dementia (PDD) and in Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). METHODS: 248 individuals, including 92 PDND, 55 PDD,

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Cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin and YKL-40 as biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease

OBJECTIVE: Widespread implementation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in clinical settings requires improved accuracy for diagnosis of prodromal disease and for distinguishing AD from non-AD dementias. Novel and promising CSF biomarkers include neurogranin, a marker of synaptic degeneration, and YKL-40, a marker of neuroinflammation. METHODS: CSF neurogranin and YKL-40 were measured

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CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 ratios improve the diagnostic accuracy for Alzheimer’s disease

11 December, 2015

New biomarkers of algorithms may improve the diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for Alzheimer’s disease (AD. The present study aimed to determine whether Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 ratios improve the diagnostic accuracy of AD during predementia and dementia stages in comparison to CSF Aβ42 alone. The study included three different cohorts comprising a total of

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Increased cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of angiogenesis in Parkinson’s disease.

20 July, 2015

Objective: To study biomarkers of angiogenesis in Parkinson’s disease (PD), and how these are associated with clinical characteristics, blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability, and cerebrovascular disease. Methods: Thirty-eight elderly controls and 100 PD patients (82 without dementia and 18 with dementia) were included from the prospective Swedish BioFinder study. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples were analyzed for the

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Comparison of Amyloid PET and CSF Biomarkers for Identifying Early Alzheimer’s Disease

Objective To compare the diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers and amyloid PET for diagnosing early-stage Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Methods From the BioFINDER study, we included 122 healthy elderly and 34 patients with mild cognitive impairment who developed AD dementia within 3 years (MCI-AD). Amyloid-β (Aβ) in 8 brain regions and globally was examined

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Alzheimer’s disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarker in cognitively normal subjects.

13 June, 2015

Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Brain. 2015 Sep;138(Pt 9):2701-15.

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Parkinson’s Disease Case Ascertainment in the EPIC Cohort: The NeuroEPIC4PD Study.

Neurodegener Dis. 2015;15(6):331-8.

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Cerebral Microbleeds and White Matter Hyperintensities in Cognitively Healthy Elderly: A Cross-sectional Cohort Study Evaluating the Effect of Arterial Stiffness.

Cerebrovascular Diseases EXTRA, 2015;5:41–51.

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Cerebral Microbleeds and White Matter Hyperintensities in Cognitively Healthy Elderly: A Cross-sectional Cohort Study Evaluating the Effect of Arterial Stiffness

19 March, 2015

Background: Arterial stiffness reflects the ageing processes in the vascular system and studies have shown an association between reduced cognitive function and cerebral small vessel disease. Small vessel disease can be visualized as white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and lacunar infarcts but also as cerebral microbleeds on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We aimed to investigate

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CSF biomarkers and clinical progression of Parkinson disease

23 January, 2015

Objective: To investigate whether certain CSF biomarkers at baseline can predict future progression of motor symptoms and cognitive decline in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). Methods: Patients and controls were recruited from hospitals in southern Sweden as part of the prospective and longitudinal Swedish BioFinder Study. In the present study, we included 42 patients with

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Accuracy of Brain Amyloid Detection in Clinical Practice Using Cerebrospinal Fluid beta-Amyloid 42

13 June, 2014

JAMA Neurol. 2014 Oct;71(10):1282-9.

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