2023
Association of Pathologic and Volumetric Biomarker Changes With Cognitive Decline in Clinically Normal Adults
Hanseeuw B, Jacobs H, Schultz A, Buckley R, Farrell M, Guehl N, Becker J, Properzi M, Sanchez J, Quiroz Y, Vannini P, Sepulcre J, Yang H, Chhatwal J, Gatchel J, Marshall G, Amariglio R, Papp K, Rentz D, Normandin M, Price J, Healy B, El Fakhri G, Sperling R, Johnson K. Association of Pathologic and Volumetric Biomarker Changes With Cognitive Decline in Clinically Normal Adults. Neurology 2023, 101: e2533-e2544. PMID: 37968130, PMCID: PMC10791053, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000207962.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAssociated with cognitive declineOlder adultsNon-AD pathologyCognitive declineHippocampal volumeCognitive dataPreclinical Alzheimer Cognitive CompositeInferior temporal tauProspective cohort studyClinically normal older adultsHarvard Aging Brain StudyPittsburgh compound B PET scansOvert cognitive impairmentAnalyzed dataNormal older adultsAging Brain StudyClinically normal adultsLongitudinal associationsAlzheimer's diseaseCohort studyMemory impairmentCognitive compositeCognitive impairmentHippocampal atrophyCognitionAssociation of Novelty-Related Locus Coeruleus Function With Entorhinal Tau Deposition and Memory Decline in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease
Prokopiou P, Engels-Domínguez N, Schultz A, Sepulcre J, Koops E, Papp K, Marshall G, Normandin M, El Fakhri G, Rentz D, Sperling R, Johnson K, Jacobs H. Association of Novelty-Related Locus Coeruleus Function With Entorhinal Tau Deposition and Memory Decline in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease. Neurology 2023, 101: e1206-e1217. PMID: 37491329, PMCID: PMC10516269, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000207646.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLC activityMemory declineLocus coeruleusCognitive declineEC tauHarvard Aging Brain StudyHuman neuroimaging studiesSteeper memory declineNoradrenergic brainstem nucleiLongitudinal cognitive dataFunctional MRI dataTau depositionAging Brain StudyPreclinical Alzheimer's diseaseTau progressionCortical tau depositionElevated beta-amyloidInterventions promoting resilienceMild cognitive impairmentExecutive dysfunctionExecutive functionNeuroimaging studiesTau spreadingTemporal cortexCognitive composite
2021
Locus coeruleus integrity as a proxy of initial tau burden: in vivo versus ex vivo observations
Jacobs H, Becker A, Kwong K, Engels N, Prokopiou P, Papp K, Properzi M, Hampton O, Sanchez J, Rentz D, Fakhri G, Normandin M, Bennett D, Sperling R, Johnson K. Locus coeruleus integrity as a proxy of initial tau burden: in vivo versus ex vivo observations. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2021, 17 DOI: 10.1002/alz.056391.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHarvard Aging Brain StudyMini-Mental State ExaminationLC integrityLocus coeruleusMini-Mental State Examination scoreNeuronal densityTangle densityLocus coeruleus integrityAging Brain StudyTau pathologyAlzheimer's diseaseAD-related processesVertex-wiseTemporal regionsBraak stageLC measurementsMini-MentalMCI/AD patientsState ExaminationBrain studiesPiB-PET imagingTau-PETPET measurementsPiB-PETTangle burden