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Heiko Braak

Researcher at University of Ulm

Publications -  352
Citations -  80226

Heiko Braak is an academic researcher from University of Ulm. The author has contributed to research in topics: Parkinson's disease & Neurofibrillary tangle. The author has an hindex of 110, co-authored 349 publications receiving 71061 citations. Previous affiliations of Heiko Braak include Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & University of Kiel.

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C URRENT OPINION Where, when, and in what form does sporadic Alzheimer's disease begin?

TL;DR: In this article, a review highlights the earliest phase of the pathological process underlying Alzheimer's disease and highlights the precursory stages of tau pathology in the proximal axon of projection neurons in locus coeruleus.
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Neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

TL;DR: In Alzheimer's disease, six developmental stages can be distinguished, reflecting the predictable manner in which the neurofibrillary changes spread through the telencephalic cortex, and in Parkinson's disease lesions also impair portions of the limbic system.
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Vulnerability of cortical neurons to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

TL;DR: The gradually evolving lesional pattern in AD and PD mirrors the ground plan of the cerebral cortex, and the severity of the neocortical lesions decreases in inverse proportion to the trajectories of increasing cortical differentiation and hierarchical refinement.
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Neuropil threads occur in dendrites of tangle-bearing nerve cells.

TL;DR: Transparent Golgi preparations counterstained for Alzheimer's neurofibrillary changes rendered possible the demonstration of neuropil threads in defined cellular processes.
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Hot-spot KIF5A mutations cause familial ALS

TL;DR: Experiments using patient-derived cell lines suggest haploinsufficiency as the molecular genetic mechanism for classical ALS, which underlines the relevance of intracellular transport processes for ALS, and is important for clinico-genetic diagnosis and counselling.