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Alzheimer's disease as homeostatic responses to age-related myelin breakdown

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This work delineates empirically testable mechanisms of action for genes underlying FAD and LOAD and provides "upstream" treatment targets and reframes key observations such as axonal transport disruptions, formation of axonal swellings/sphenoids and neuritic plaques, and proteinaceous deposits as by-products of homeostatic myelin repair processes.
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Recent advances in imaging Alzheimer's disease.

TL;DR: A variety of illustrative studies are selected, describing how they advanced the field and are leading AD research in promising new directions, in the context of AD prediction and progression.
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Magnetic resonance imaging relaxation time in Alzheimer's disease.

TL;DR: The applications and key findings of MRI techniques in the context of both AD subjects and AD transgenic mouse models are summarized and the possible mechanisms of relaxation time alterations in AD are discussed.
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Imaging Small Vessel-Associated White Matter Changes in Aging

TL;DR: A selected portion of the vast work that demonstrates links between changes in vascular and neural health as a function of advancing age is reviewed, and how even changes in low-to-moderate risk individuals, potentially beginning early in the adult age-span, may have an important impact on functional status in late life.
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Distinct patterns of default mode and executive control network circuitry contribute to present and future executive function in older adults.

TL;DR: It is suggested that functional activation patterns within the DMN and ECN and WMHs contribute to baseline EF while structural connectivity within these networks impact longitudinal EF performance in older adults.
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The Amyloid Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease: Progress and Problems on the Road to Therapeutics

TL;DR: It has been more than 10 years since it was first proposed that the neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) may be caused by deposition of amyloid β-peptide in plaques in brain tissue and the rest of the disease process is proposed to result from an imbalance between Aβ production and Aβ clearance.
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Gene dose of apolipoprotein E type 4 allele and the risk of Alzheimer's disease in late onset families

TL;DR: The APOE-epsilon 4 allele is associated with the common late onset familial and sporadic forms of Alzheimer9s disease (AD) in 42 families with late onset AD.
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Physical basis of cognitive alterations in Alzheimer's disease: synapse loss is the major correlate of cognitive impairment.

TL;DR: Both linear regressions and multivariate analyses correlating three global neuropsychological tests with a number of structural and neurochemical measurements performed on a prospective series of patients with Alzheimer's disease and 9 neuropathologically normal subjects reveal very powerful correlations with all three psychological assays.
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Alzheimer's Disease Is a Synaptic Failure

TL;DR: Mounting evidence suggests that this syndrome begins with subtle alterations of hippocampal synaptic efficacy prior to frank neuronal degeneration, and that the synaptic dysfunction is caused by diffusible oligomeric assemblies of the amyloid β protein.
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