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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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Mitochondrial DNA variation in Alzheimer’s disease reveals a unique microprotein called SHMOOSE

TL;DR: SHMOOSE acted on the brain following intracerebroventricular administration, differentiated mitochondrial gene expression in multiple models, localized to mitochondria, bound the inner mitochondrial membrane protein mitofilin, and boosted mitochondrial oxygen consumption, and has vast implications for the fields of neurobiology, Alzheimer's disease, and microproteins.
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Increased expression of myelin-associated genes in frontal cortex of SNCA overexpressing rats and Parkinson's disease patients.

TL;DR: The results highlight that even for a group of functionally linked genes distinct interference mechanisms may underlie disease progression that cannot be distinguished by examining the terminal point alone but instead require longitudinal interrogation of the system.
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A tough trek in the development of an anti-amyloid therapy for Alzheimer's disease: Do we see hope in the distance?

TL;DR: Aducanumab showed some subtle benefit in some mild Alzheimer's patients as discussed by the authors , however, the efficacy of the drug was limited and the conditions under which the drug should be administered were modified.
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Social Cognition and White Matter: Connectivity and Cooperation.

TL;DR: C cerebral white matter has expanded even more robustly than the neocortex, coinciding with the emergence of social cognition, and the contribution of white matter to social cognition can be conceptualized as the enhancement of cooperation through brain connectivity.
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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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