Search Results - "Pirraglia, Elizabeth"
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Lower mortality risk in APOE4 carriers with normal cognitive ageing
Published in Scientific reports (12-09-2023)“…Abnormal cognitive ageing, including dementia, poses serious challenges to health and social systems in ageing populations. As such, characterizing factors…”
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity Affects Amyloid Burden in Cognitively Normal Elderly. A Longitudinal Study
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (01-04-2018)“…Recent evidence suggests that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may be a risk factor for developing mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. However, how…”
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Obstructive sleep apnea and longitudinal Alzheimer's disease biomarker changes
Published in Sleep (New York, N.Y.) (11-06-2019)“…To determine the effect of self-reported clinical diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) on longitudinal changes in brain amyloid PET and CSF biomarkers…”
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The interaction between sleep-disordered breathing and apolipoprotein E genotype on cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in cognitively normal elderly individuals
Published in Neurobiology of aging (01-06-2014)“…Abstract Previous studies have suggested a link between sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and dementia risk. In the present study, we analyzed the relationship…”
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Plasma tau complements CSF tau and P-tau in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
Published in Alzheimer's & dementia : diagnosis, assessment & disease monitoring (01-12-2019)“…Plasma tau may be an accessible biomarker for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the correlation between plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau and the value of…”
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Decreased CSF clearance and increased brain amyloid in Alzheimer's disease
Published in Fluids and barriers of the CNS (14-03-2022)“…In sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD), brain amyloid-beta (Aβ) deposition is believed to be a consequence of impaired Aβ clearance, but this relationship is not…”
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The nonlinear relationship between cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42 and tau in preclinical Alzheimer's disease
Published in PloS one (07-02-2018)“…Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) studies consistently show that CSF levels of amyloid-beta 1-42 (Aβ42) are reduced and tau levels increased prior to the onset of…”
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Regional analysis of FDG and PIB-PET images in normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease
Published in European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (01-12-2008)“…Objective The objective of the study is to compare the diagnostic value of regional sampling of the cerebral metabolic rate of glucose metabolism (MRglc) using…”
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Maternal family history of Alzheimer's disease predisposes to reduced brain glucose metabolism
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (27-11-2007)“…Having a parent affected with late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a risk factor for developing AD among cognitively normal subjects. We examined whether…”
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Prediction and longitudinal study of CSF biomarkers in mild cognitive impairment
Published in Neurobiology of aging (01-05-2009)“…Abstract Objectives To longitudinally evaluate five cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in the transition from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's…”
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Reduced retention of Pittsburgh compound B in white matter lesions
Published in European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (01-01-2015)“…Purpose One of the interesting features of the amyloid tracer Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) is that it generates a signal in the white matter (WM) in both…”
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Does mild cognitive impairment increase the risk of developing postoperative cognitive dysfunction?
Published in The American journal of surgery (01-06-2010)“…Abstract Background Increasingly, postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is recognized as a complication after surgery in the elderly. We sought to…”
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Cortical laminar binding of PET amyloid and tau tracers in Alzheimer disease
Published in Journal of Nuclear Medicine (01-02-2015)“…Neurofibrillary tau pathology and amyloid β (Aβ) plaques, characteristic lesions of Alzheimer disease (AD), show different neocortical laminar distributions…”
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Clearance in Alzheimer Disease Measured with Dynamic PET
Published in Journal of Nuclear Medicine (01-09-2017)“…Evidence supporting the hypothesis that reduced cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) clearance is involved in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease (AD) comes…”
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Sleep-disordered breathing advances cognitive decline in the elderly
Published in Neurology (12-05-2015)“…OBJECTIVE:To examine whether the presence of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is associated with an earlier age at mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Alzheimer…”
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Periodontal disease associates with higher brain amyloid load in normal elderly
Published in Neurobiology of aging (01-02-2015)“…Abstract The accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques is a central feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD). First reported in animal models, it remains uncertain if…”
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Multifocal repetitive TMS for motor and mood symptoms of Parkinson disease: A randomized trial
Published in Neurology (01-11-2016)“…OBJECTIVE:To assess whether multifocal, high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of motor and prefrontal cortex benefits motor and…”
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Reduced Slow-Wave Sleep Is Associated with High Cerebrospinal Fluid Aβ42 Levels in Cognitively Normal Elderly
Published in Sleep (New York, N.Y.) (01-11-2016)“…Abstract Study Objectives: Emerging evidence suggests a role for sleep in contributing to the progression of Alzheimer disease (AD). Slow wave sleep (SWS) is…”
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FDG-PET changes in brain glucose metabolism from normal cognition to pathologically verified Alzheimer’s disease
Published in European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (01-05-2009)“…Purpose We report the first clinicopathological series of longitudinal FDG-PET scans in post-mortem (PM) verified cognitively normal elderly (NL) followed to…”
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Traumatic brain injury and age at onset of cognitive decline in corticobasal degeneration, corticobasal syndrome, and progressive supranuclear palsy
Published in Alzheimer's & dementia (01-12-2021)“…Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been repeatedly shown to be a risk factor for several neurodegenerative diseases. However, no studies have yet…”
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