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Current Alzheimer Research - Volume 9, Issue 6, 2012
Volume 9, Issue 6, 2012
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The Nun Study: Risk Factors for Pathology and Clinical-Pathologic Correlations
More LessThe Nun Study was the first cohort study to enroll and follow a large, well-defined population that included demented and non-demented participants, all of whom agreed to donate their brains for research. The inclusion of systematic neuropathologic analysis in this study has resulted in a greater understanding of the role of Alzheimer and vascular pathology in the expression of memory deficits and dementia and has Read More
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Overview and Findings from the Religious Orders Study
Authors: David A. Bennett, Julie A. Schneider, Zoe Arvanitakis and Robert S. WilsonThe Religious Orders Study is a longitudinal clinical-pathologic cohort study of aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In this manuscript, we summarize the study methods including the study design and describe the clinical evaluation, assessment of risk factors, collection of ante-mortem biological specimens, brain autopsy and collection of selected postmortem data. The results: 1) review the relation of neuropathologic in Read More
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Overview and Findings from the Rush Memory and Aging Project
The Memory and Aging Project is a longitudinal, epidemiologic clinical-pathologic cohort study of common chronic conditions of aging with an emphasis on decline in cognitive and motor function and risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In this manuscript, we first summarize the study design and methods. Then, we present data on: 1) the relation of motor function to cognition, disability, and death; 2) the relation of risk factor Read More
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The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study: Epidemiologic and Neuropathologic Research on Cognitive Impairment
Authors: Rebecca P. Gelber, Lenore J. Launer and Lon R. WhiteThe Honolulu-Asia Aging Study (HAAS) is a longitudinal epidemiologic investigation of rates, risk factors, and neuropathologic abnormalities associated with cognitive decline and dementia in aged Japanese-American men. The project was established in 1991 and will be brought to closure in 2012. Age-specific rates of total dementia and the major specific types of dementia in HAAS participants are generally similar to thos Read More
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The Framingham Brain Donation Program: Neuropathology Along the Cognitive Continuum
The Framingham Heart Study has enrolled 3 generations of participants, the Original cohort (Gen 1) enrolled in 1948, the Offspring cohort (Gen 2) enrolled in 1971 and the Third Generation enrolled in 2002. Participants have been undergoing prospective surveillance for incident stroke and dementia and embedded within this cohort is the voluntary Framingham Brain Donation Program that was begun in 1997. Participants w Read More
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The Neuropathology of Vascular Disease in the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS)
Background: Vascular disease is associated with increased risk of dementia. Vascular health worsens with age. We investigated the relationship between self-reported vascular disease and brain pathology. Methods: Brain donations to the population-based MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (n=456, age range 66-103 years) were assessed using a standard protocol for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and cerebrovascular path Read More
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Neuropathological Correlates of Falling in the CC75C Population-Based Sample of the Older Old
Background: Previous imaging studies have suggested links between brain pathologies and factors that are associated with falls such as gait, balance and daily function. Possible neuropathological correlates of older people’s falls have been suggested based on brain imaging studies, but to date none have been examined in brain tissue. Methods: Falls data collected from repeated surveys of a population-based cohort of indi Read More
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A Population-Based Clinicopathological Study in the Oldest-Old: The 90+ Study
Authors: Maria M. Corrada, Daniel J. Berlau and Claudia H. KawasPopulation-based longitudinal clinicopathological studies provide an ideal opportunity to study a variety of risk and protective factors in relation to pathology associated with dementia in individuals who are representative of the general population. The 90+ Study is a population-based study designed specifically to study aging and dementia as well as its neuropathological correlates in participants 90 years of age and older. W Read More
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Adult Changes in Thought Study: Dementia is an Individually Varying Convergent Syndrome with Prevalent Clinically Silent Diseases that may be Modified by Some Commonly Used Therapeutics
Authors: Thomas J. Montine, Joshua A. Sonnen, Kathleen S. Montine, Paul K. Crane and Eric B. LarsonThe Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study is a longitudinal population-based prospective cohort study of brain aging and incident dementia in the Seattle metropolitan area. Observational studies using autopsies from ACT indicate that dementia is a convergent syndrome that commonly derives from Alzheimer’s disease (AD), microvascular brain injury (mVBI), and Lewy body disease (LBD), and that these diseases have pr Read More
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University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Healthy Brain Aging Volunteers: Donor Characteristics, Procedures and Neuropathology
Cognitively intact elderly research volunteers at the University of Kentucky have been recruited, followed longitudinally, and autopsied with extensive neuropathological evaluations since 1989. To date, the cohort has recruited 1,030 individuals with 552 participants being actively followed, 363 deceased, and 273 autopsied. An extensive database has been constructed with continuous updates that include textured Read More
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The Minority Aging Research Study: Ongoing Efforts to Obtain Brain Donation in African Americans without Dementia
Authors: Lisa L. Barnes, Raj C. Shah, Neelum T. Aggarwal, David A. Bennett and Julie A. SchneiderThe Minority Aging Research Study (MARS) is a longitudinal, epidemiologic cohort study of decline in cognitive function and risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in older African Americans, with brain donation after death added as an optional component for those willing to consider organ donation. In this manuscript, we first summarize the study design and methods of MARS. We then provide details of ongoing efforts to a Read More
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N-Methyl D-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptor Antagonists and Memantine Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease, Vascular Dementia and Parkinson’s Disease
Memantine, a partial antagonist of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR), approved for moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease (AD) treatment within the US and Europe under brand name Namenda (Forest), Axura and Akatinol (Merz), and Ebixa and Abixa (Lundbeck), may have potential in alleviating additional neurological conditions, such as vascular dementia (VD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). In various animal models, m Read More
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Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Functional Status in Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia Patients
Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are increasingly recognized as common in patients with dementia, both of degenerative (Alzheimer’s disease, AD) or vascular origin (vascular dementia, VaD). In this study, 302 demented patients, 166 with AD and 136 with VaD, were evaluated for NPS according to the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) score at the Alzheimer’s Evaluation Unit of Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital-IRC Read More
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Volume 21 (2024)
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Volume 20 (2023)
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Volume 19 (2022)
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Volume 18 (2021)
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Volume 17 (2020)
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Volume 16 (2019)
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Volume 15 (2018)
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Volume 14 (2017)
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Volume 13 (2016)
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Volume 12 (2015)
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Volume 11 (2014)
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Volume 10 (2013)
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Volume 9 (2012)
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Volume 8 (2011)
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Volume 7 (2010)
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Volume 6 (2009)
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Volume 5 (2008)
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Volume 4 (2007)
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Volume 3 (2006)
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Volume 2 (2005)
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