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Dementia is rare in midlife rugby players, but long-term risk may be increased
A study of 200 former professional rugby players (aged 30-61 years old), researchers from the UK DRI, Imperial College London and University College London (affiliated...
Sleep problems could double risk of dementia in later life
People who experience sleep disorders are at greater risk of developing dementia and other neurodegenerative conditions later in life, new research led by Prof Valentina...
Genetic Mapping of APP and Amyloid-β Biology Modulation by Trisomy 21.
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Paige Mumford, Justin Tosh, Silvia Anderle, Eleni Gkanatsiou Wikberg, Gloria Lau, Sue Noy, Karen Cleverley, Takashi Saito, Takaomi C Saido, Eugene Yu, Gunnar Brinkmalm, Erik Portelius, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Victor Tybulewicz, Elizabeth M C Fisher, Frances K Wiseman
Widespread cell stress and mitochondrial dysfunction occur in patients with early Alzheimer's disease.
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Ashwin V Venkataraman, Ayla Mansur, Gaia Rizzo, Courtney Bishop, Yvonne Lewis, Ece Kocagoncu, Anne Lingford-Hughes, Mickael Huiban, Jan Passchier, James B Rowe, Hideo Tsukada, David J Brooks, Laurent Martarello, Robert A Comley, Laigao Chen, Adam J Schwarz, Richard Hargreaves, Roger N Gunn, Eugenii A Rabiner, Paul M Matthews
Plasma GFAP in presymptomatic and symptomatic familial Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal cohort study.
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Antoinette O'Connor, Emily Abel, Andrea Lessa Benedet, Teresa Poole, Nicholas Ashton, Philip Simon John Weston, Amanda J Heslegrave, Natalie Ryan, Suzie Barker, James M Polke, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Nick C Fox
Whole genome analysis in APOE4 homozygotes identifies the DAB1-RELN pathway in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis.
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Matthew Bracher-Smith, Ganna Leonenko, Emily Baker, Karen Crawford, Andrew C Graham, Dervis A Salih, Brian W Howell, John Hardy, Valentina Escott-Price
Treatment with IgM-enriched intravenous immunoglobulins enhances clearance of stroke-associated bacterial lung infection.
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Laura McCulloch, Alison J Harris, Alexandra Malbon, Michael J D Daniels, Mehwish Younas, John R Grainger, Stuart M Allan, Craig J Smith, Barry W McColl
A biological classification of Huntington's disease: the Integrated Staging System.
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Sarah J Tabrizi, Scott Schobel, Emily C Gantman, Alexandra Mansbach, Beth Borowsky, Pavlina Konstantinova, Tiago A Mestre, Jennifer Panagoulias, Christopher A Ross, Maurice Zauderer, Ariana P Mullin, Klaus Romero, Sudhir Sivakumaran, Emily C Turner, Jeffrey D Long, Cristina Sampaio,
17q21.31 sub-haplotypes underlying H1-associated risk for Parkinson's disease are associated with LRRC37A/2 expression in astrocytes.
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Kathryn R Bowles, Derian A Pugh, Yiyuan Liu, Tulsi Patel, Alan E Renton, Sara Bandres-Ciga, Ziv Gan-Or, Peter Heutink, Ari Siitonen, Sarah Bertelsen, Jonathan D Cherry, Celeste M Karch, Steven J Frucht, Brian H Kopell, Inga Peter, Y J Park, , Alexander Charney, Towfique Raj, John F Crary, A M Goate
Identification of early neurodegenerative pathways in progressive multiple sclerosis.
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Max Kaufmann, Anna-Lena Schaupp, Rosa Sun, Fabian Coscia, Calliope A Dendrou, Adrian Cortes, Gurman Kaur, Hayley G Evans, Annelie Mollbrink, José Fernández Navarro, Jana K Sonner, Christina Mayer, Gabriele C DeLuca, Joakim Lundeberg, Paul M Matthews, Kathrine E Attfield, Manuel A Friese, Matthias Mann, Lars Fugger
Terminal complement pathway activation drives synaptic loss in Alzheimer's disease models.
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Sarah M Carpanini, Megan Torvell, Ryan J Bevan, Robert A J Byrne, Nikoleta Daskoulidou, Takashi Saito, Takaomi C Saido, Philip R Taylor, Timothy R Hughes, Wioleta M Zelek, B Paul Morgan
A specific circuit in the midbrain detects stress and induces restorative sleep.
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Xiao Yu, Guangchao Zhao, Dan Wang, Sa Wang, Rui Li, Ao Li, Huan Wang, Mathieu Nollet, You Young Chun, Tianyuan Zhao, Raquel Yustos, Huiming Li, Jianshuai Zhao, Jiannan Li, Min Cai, Alexei L Vyssotski, Yulong Li, Hailong Dong, Nicholas P Franks, William Wisden
Recent Trends in Non-invasive Neural Recording Based Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Analysis on Multidisciplinary Human Interactions for Understanding Brain Dynamics: A Systematic Review.
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Tahnia Nazneen, Iffath Binta Islam, Md Sakibur Rahman Sajal, Wasifa Jamal, M Ashraful Amin, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Tom Chau, Khondaker A Mamun