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  1. Content type: Research

    Down syndrome (DS) may be considered a genetic form of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) due to universal development of AD neuropathology, but diagnosis and treatment trials are hampered by a lack of reliable blood bi...

    Authors: Andre Strydom, Amanda Heslegrave, Carla M. Startin, Kin Y. Mok, John Hardy, Jurgen Groet, Dean Nizetic and Henrik Zetterberg

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:39

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    Symptomatic benefits have been reported for 5-HT6 receptor antagonists in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) trials. SAM-760 is a potent and selective 5-HT6 receptor antagonist that has demonstrated central 5-HT6 receptor ...

    Authors: Terence Fullerton, Brendon Binneman, William David, Marielle Delnomdedieu, James Kupiec, Peter Lockwood, Jessica Mancuso, Jeffrey Miceli and Joanne Bell

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:38

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    We explored the presence of both reserve and resilience in late-converter mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease (MCI-AD) and in patients with slowly progressing amyloid-positive MCI by assessing...

    Authors: Matteo Bauckneht, Andrea Chincarini, Roberta Piva, Dario Arnaldi, Nicola Girtler, Federico Massa, Matteo Pardini, Matteo Grazzini, Hulya Efeturk, Marco Pagani, Gianmario Sambuceti, Flavio Nobili and Silvia Morbelli

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:35

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    Comparison of disease progression between placebo-group patients from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and real-world patients can aid in assessing the generalisability of RCT outcomes. This analysis compar...

    Authors: Catherine Reed, Mark Belger, Grazia Dell’Agnello, Kristin Kahle-Wrobleski, Gopalan Sethuraman, Ann Hake, Joel Raskin and David Henley

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:36

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    We explored the diagnostic performance of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in allowing differentiation between frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), as well as between FTLD...

    Authors: Joery Goossens, Maria Bjerke, Sara Van Mossevelde, Tobi Van den Bossche, Johan Goeman, Bart De Vil, Anne Sieben, Jean-Jacques Martin, Patrick Cras, Peter Paul De Deyn, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Julie van der Zee and Sebastiaan Engelborghs

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:31

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    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers are increasingly being used to support a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Their clinical utility for differentiating AD from non-AD neurodegenerative dementias, such ...

    Authors: Ross W. Paterson, Catherine F. Slattery, Teresa Poole, Jennifer M. Nicholas, Nadia K. Magdalinou, Jamie Toombs, Miles D. Chapman, Michael P. Lunn, Amanda J. Heslegrave, Martha S Foiani, Philip S. J. Weston, Ashvini Keshavan, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Martin N. Rossor, Jason D. Warren, Catherine J. Mummery…

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:32

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    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers have been used to increase the evidence of underlying Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). However, CSF biomarker-based classification oft...

    Authors: Inês Baldeiras, Isabel Santana, Maria João Leitão, Helena Gens, Rui Pascoal, Miguel Tábuas-Pereira, José Beato-Coelho, Diana Duro, Maria Rosário Almeida and Catarina Resende Oliveira

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:33

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  10. Content type: Review

    Body fluid biomarkers have great potential for different clinical purposes, including diagnosis, prognosis, patient stratification and treatment effect monitoring. This is exemplified by current use of several...

    Authors: Charlotte E. Teunissen, Markus Otto, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Sanna-Kaisa Herukka, Sylvain Lehmann, Piotr Lewczuk, Alberto Lleó, Armand Perret-Liaudet, Hayrettin Tumani, Martin R. Turner, Marcel M. Verbeek, Jens Wiltfang, Henrik Zetterberg, Lucilla Parnetti and Kaj Blennow

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:30

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    Substantial evidence indicates that the relationship between blood pressure (BP) measures and cognitive functioning is inconsistent, complex, and age-related. Pulse pressure (PP), which can not only reflect ar...

    Authors: Tingting Sha, Wenwei Cheng and Yan Yan

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:29

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    Recent evidence derived from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies suggests that functional hubs (i.e., highly connected brain regions) are important for mental health. We found recently that gl...

    Authors: Nicolai Franzmeier, Julia Hartmann, Alexander N. W. Taylor, Miguel Á. Araque-Caballero, Lee Simon-Vermot, Lana Kambeitz-Ilankovic, Katharina Bürger, Cihan Catak, Daniel Janowitz, Claudia Müller, Birgit Ertl-Wagner, Robert Stahl, Martin Dichgans, Marco Duering and Michael Ewers

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:28

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    The underlying mechanism of brain glucose hypometabolism, an invariant neurodegenerative feature that tightly correlates with cognitive impairment and disease progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), remains e...

    Authors: Shaoming Sang, Xiaoli Pan, Zhichun Chen, Fan Zeng, Shumei Pan, Huimin Liu, Lirong Jin, Guoqiang Fei, Changpeng Wang, Shuhua Ren, Fangyang Jiao, Weiqi Bao, Weiyan Zhou, Yihui Guan, Yiqiu Zhang, Hongcheng Shi…

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:26

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    Dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are the two most common neurodegenerative causes of dementia. They commonly occur together, especially in older people, but clinical...

    Authors: Alan J. Thomas, Fariba Mahin-Babaei, Mohammad Saidi, Debbie Lett, John Paul Taylor, Lauren Walker and Johannes Attems

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:27

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    Neuroinflammation has gained increasing attention as a potential contributing factor in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology. A clinical cerebrospinal fluid biomarker capable of monitoring this process during th...

    Authors: Frederic Brosseron, Andreas Traschütz, Catherine N. Widmann, Markus P. Kummer, Pawel Tacik, Francesco Santarelli, Frank Jessen and Michael T. Heneka

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:25

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    Survival after dementia diagnosis varies considerably. Previous studies were focused mainly on factors related to demographics and comorbidity rather than on Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-related determinants. We s...

    Authors: Hanneke F. M. Rhodius-Meester, Hilkka Liedes, Ted Koene, Afina W. Lemstra, Charlotte E. Teunissen, Frederik Barkhof, Philip Scheltens, Mark van Gils, Jyrki Lötjönen and Wiesje M. van der Flier

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:23

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    The phosphodiesterase (PDE) 7 inhibitor S14 is a cell-permeable small heterocyclic molecule that is able to cross the blood–brain barrier. We previously found that intraperitoneal treatment with S14 exerted ne...

    Authors: Fernando Bartolome, Macarena de la Cueva, Consuelo Pascual, Desiree Antequera, Tamara Fernandez, Carmen Gil, Ana Martinez and Eva Carro

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:24

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  18. Content type: Review

    A growing number of pharmacological and nonpharmacological trials have been performed to test the efficacy of approved or experimental treatments in Alzheimer disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). ...

    Authors: Elisa Canu, Elisabetta Sarasso, Massimo Filippi and Federica Agosta

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:21

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    Simultaneous consideration of two neuropathological traits related to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has not been attempted in a genome-wide association study.

    Authors: Jaeyoon Chung, Xiaoling Zhang, Mariet Allen, Xue Wang, Yiyi Ma, Gary Beecham, Thomas J. Montine, Steven G. Younkin, Dennis W. Dickson, Todd E. Golde, Nathan D. Price, Nilüfer Ertekin-Taner, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Jesse Mez, Richard Mayeux, Jonathan L. Haines…

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:22

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    The prevalence of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and dementia in Parkinson’s disease (PDD) in routine clinical practice is unclear. Prevalence rates observed in clinical and population-based cohorts and neuro...

    Authors: Joseph P. M. Kane, Ajenthan Surendranathan, Allison Bentley, Sally A. H. Barker, John-Paul Taylor, Alan J. Thomas, Louise M. Allan, Richard J. McNally, Peter W. James, Ian G. McKeith, David J. Burn and John T. O’Brien

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:19

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    Current approved drugs for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) only attenuate symptoms, but do not cure the disease. The pirinixic acid derivate MH84 has been characterized as a dual gamma-secretase/proliferator activate...

    Authors: Maximilian Pohland, Maren Pellowska, Heike Asseburg, Stephanie Hagl, Martina Reutzel, Aljoscha Joppe, Dirk Berressem, Schamim H. Eckert, Mario Wurglics, Manfred Schubert‐Zsilavecz and Gunter P. Eckert

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:18

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    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease, and genetic differences may mediate neuronal degeneration. In humans, a single-nucleotide polymorphism in the B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemi...

    Authors: Chiung-Chih Chang, Ya-Ting Chang, Chi-Wei Huang, Shih-Jen Tsai, Shih-Wei Hsu, Shu-Hua Huang, Chen-Chang Lee, Wen-Neng Chang, Chun-Chung Lui and Chia-Yi Lien

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:17

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    Deep phenotyping and longitudinal assessment of predementia at-risk states of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are required to define populations and outcomes for dementia prevention trials. Subjective cognitive decli...

    Authors: Frank Jessen, Annika Spottke, Henning Boecker, Frederic Brosseron, Katharina Buerger, Cihan Catak, Klaus Fliessbach, Christiana Franke, Manuel Fuentes, Michael T. Heneka, Daniel Janowitz, Ingo Kilimann, Christoph Laske, Felix Menne, Peter Nestor, Oliver Peters…

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:15

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    Animal models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are essential to understanding the disease progression and to development of early biomarkers. Because AD has been described as a disconnection syndrome, magnetic reso...

    Authors: Emma Muñoz-Moreno, Raúl Tudela, Xavier López-Gil and Guadalupe Soria

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:16

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  25. Content type: Research

    Despite a tremendous amount of information on the role of amyloid in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), almost all clinical trials testing this hypothesis have failed to generate clinically relevant cognitive effects.

    Authors: Hugo Geerts, Athan Spiros and Patrick Roberts

    Citation: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2018 10:14

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