2023
Association 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
2022
Network Tau spreading is vulnerable to the expression gradients of APOE and glutamatergic-related genes
Montal V, Diez I, Kim C, Orwig W, Bueichekú E, Gutiérrez-Zúñiga R, Bejanin A, Pegueroles J, Dols-Icardo O, Vannini P, El-Fakhri G, Johnson K, Sperling R, Fortea J, Sepulcre J. Network Tau spreading is vulnerable to the expression gradients of APOE and glutamatergic-related genes. Science Translational Medicine 2022, 14: eabn7273. PMID: 35895837, PMCID: PMC9942690, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abn7273.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTau spreadingIntracellular accumulation of tau proteinAccumulation of tau proteinAlzheimer's diseasePathological tau accumulationGenetic gradientGenetic dataTau proteinNeurofibrillary tanglesSynaptic genesTau accumulationGenetic traitsGenesDrug development strategiesExpression gradientIntracellular accumulationTauExpressionCognitively normal older participantsHuman brain cortexTanglesProteinApoTraitsAlzheimer
2020
Tracking the origin of tau spread in the brain
Jacobs H, Becker A, Kwong K, Uquillas F, Papp K, Properzi M, Rentz D, Fakhri G, Sperling R, Johnson K. Tracking the origin of tau spread in the brain. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2020, 16 DOI: 10.1002/alz.037501.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEntorhinal cortexMemory declineLocus coeruleusHarvard Aging Brain StudyPosterior cingulate cortexProspective memory declineAD-related cognitive declineMedial temporal lobeAging Brain StudyTau spreadingAlzheimer's diseaseCingulate cortexLimbic regionsNeuropsychological assessmentCingulate regionsTau PET imagingLC integrityCognitive changesTau accumulationMediation analysisTemporal lobeEntorhinal tauIncreased ABCognitive declineBrain studies
2018
Neurogenetic contributions to amyloid beta and tau spreading in the human cortex
Sepulcre J, Grothe M, d’Oleire Uquillas F, Ortiz-Terán L, Diez I, Yang H, Jacobs H, Hanseeuw B, Li Q, El-Fakhri G, Sperling R, Johnson K. Neurogenetic contributions to amyloid beta and tau spreading in the human cortex. Nature Medicine 2018, 24: 1910-1918. PMID: 30374196, PMCID: PMC6518398, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-018-0206-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAmyloid-betaGenetic profileIdentified distinct pathwaysTau positron emission tomography imagingTau propagationTau pathwayTau spreadingGenetic backgroundAllen Human Brain AtlasDistinct pathwaysAlzheimer's diseaseTauLipid metabolismAb accumulationAdult individualsPathwayHuman Brain AtlasPathological progressionTranscriptomeMechanisms of pathological progressionBetaAmyloidProteinopathiesNeuronal circuitsApo