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1. Validation and convergent validity of the Boston cognitive assessment (BOCA) in an Italian population: a comparative study with the Montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA) in Alzheimer’s disease spectrum

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Padovani, Alessandro, Caratozzolo, Salvatore, Galli, Alice, Crosani, Luca, Zampini, Silvio, Cosseddu, Maura, Turrone, Rosanna, Zancanaro, Andrea, Gumina, Bianca, Vicini-Chilovi, Barbara, Benussi, Alberto, Vyshedskiy, Andrey, and Pilotto, Andrea

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2024
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2. Network structure and transcriptomic vulnerability shape atrophy in frontotemporal dementia

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Shafiei, Golia, Bazinet, Vincent, Dadar, Mahsa, Manera, Ana L, Collins, D Louis, Dagher, Alain, Borroni, Barbara, Sanchez-Valle, Raquel, Moreno, Fermin, Laforce, Robert, Graff, Caroline, Synofzik, Matthis, Galimberti, Daniela, Rowe, James B, Masellis, Mario, Tartaglia, Maria Carmela, Finger, Elizabeth, Vandenberghe, Rik, de Mendonça, Alexandre, Tagliavini, Fabrizio, Santana, Isabel, Butler, Chris, Gerhard, Alex, Danek, Adrian, Levin, Johannes, Otto, Markus, Sorbi, Sandro, Jiskoot, Lize C, Seelaar, Harro, van Swieten, John C, Rohrer, Jonathan D, Misic, Bratislav, Ducharme, Simon, Initiative, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Neuroimaging, Rosen, Howard, Dickerson, Bradford C, Domoto-Reilly, Kimoko, Knopman, David, Boeve, Bradley F, Boxer, Adam L, Kornak, John, Miller, Bruce L, Seeley, William W, Gorno-Tempini, Maria-Luisa, McGinnis, Scott, Mandelli, Maria Luisa, Initiative, GENetic Frontotemporal dementia, Esteve, Aitana Sogorb, Nelson, Annabel, Bouzigues, Arabella, Heller, Carolin, Greaves, Caroline V, Cash, David, Thomas, David L, Todd, Emily, Benotmane, Hanya, Zetterberg, Henrik, Swift, Imogen J, Nicholas, Jennifer, Samra, Kiran, Russell, Lucy L, Bocchetta, Martina, Shafei, Rachelle, Convery, Rhian S, Timberlake, Carolyn, Cope, Thomas, Rittman, Timothy, Benussi, Alberto, Premi, Enrico, Gasparotti, Roberto, Archetti, Silvana, Gazzina, Stefano, Cantoni, Valentina, Arighi, Andrea, Fenoglio, Chiara, Scarpini, Elio, Fumagalli, Giorgio, Borracci, Vittoria, Rossi, Giacomina, Giaccone, Giorgio, Di Fede, Giuseppe, Caroppo, Paola, Tiraboschi, Pietro, Prioni, Sara, Redaelli, Veronica, Tang-Wai, David, Rogaeva, Ekaterina, Castelo-Branco, Miguel, Freedman, Morris, Keren, Ron, Black, Sandra, Mitchell, Sara, Shoesmith, Christen, Bartha, Robart, Rademakers, Rosa, van der Ende, Emma, Poos, Jackie, Papma, Janne M, Giannini, Lucia, and van Minkelen, Rick

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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Health Sciences, Psychology, Acquired Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, Aging, Neurodegenerative, Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Neurosciences, Alzheimer's Disease including Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD), Brain Disorders, Alzheimer's Disease, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Neurological, Humans, Frontotemporal Dementia, Transcriptome, Brain, Pick Disease of the Brain, Atrophy, Connectome, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neuropsychological Tests, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Neuroimaging Initiative, GENetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative, connectome, disease epicentre, frontotemporal dementia, gene expression, network spreading, Medical and Health Sciences, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
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Connections among brain regions allow pathological perturbations to spread from a single source region to multiple regions. Patterns of neurodegeneration in multiple diseases, including behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), resemble the large-scale functional systems, but how bvFTD-related atrophy patterns relate to structural network organization remains unknown. Here we investigate whether neurodegeneration patterns in sporadic and genetic bvFTD are conditioned by connectome architecture. Regional atrophy patterns were estimated in both genetic bvFTD (75 patients, 247 controls) and sporadic bvFTD (70 patients, 123 controls). First, we identified distributed atrophy patterns in bvFTD, mainly targeting areas associated with the limbic intrinsic network and insular cytoarchitectonic class. Regional atrophy was significantly correlated with atrophy of structurally- and functionally-connected neighbours, demonstrating that network structure shapes atrophy patterns. The anterior insula was identified as the predominant group epicentre of brain atrophy using data-driven and simulation-based methods, with some secondary regions in frontal ventromedial and antero-medial temporal areas. We found that FTD-related genes, namely C9orf72 and TARDBP, confer local transcriptomic vulnerability to the disease, modulating the propagation of pathology through the connectome. Collectively, our results demonstrate that atrophy patterns in sporadic and genetic bvFTD are jointly shaped by global connectome architecture and local transcriptomic vulnerability, providing an explanation as to how heterogenous pathological entities can lead to the same clinical syndrome.

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2023

6. Brain Stimulation in Alzheimer's Disease Trials.

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Benussi, Alberto and Borroni, Barbara

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*TRANSCRANIAL alternating current stimulation, *TRANSCRANIAL direct current stimulation, *TRANSCRANIAL magnetic stimulation, *DEEP brain stimulation, *BRAIN stimulation
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) continues to lack definitive curative therapies, necessitating an urgent exploration of innovative approaches. This review provides a comprehensive analysis of recent clinical trials focusing on invasive and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques as potential interventions for AD. Deep brain stimulation (DBS), repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) are evaluated for their therapeutic efficacy, safety, and applicability. DBS, though invasive, has shown promising results in mitigating cognitive decline, but concerns over surgical risks and long-term effects persist. On the other hand, non-invasive methods like rTMS, tDCS, and tACS have demonstrated potential in enhancing cognitive performance and delaying disease progression, with minimal side effects, but with varied consistency. The evidence hints towards an individualized, patient-centric approach to brain stimulation, considering factors such as disease stage, genetic traits, and stimulation parameters. The review also highlights emerging technologies and potential future directions, emphasizing the need for larger, multi-center trials to confirm preliminary findings and establish robust clinical guidelines. In conclusion, while brain stimulation techniques present a promising avenue in AD therapy, further research is imperative for more comprehensive understanding and successful clinical implementation. Through this review, we aim to catalyze the scientific discourse and stimulate further investigation into these novel interventions for AD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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7. Author Correction: Common variants in Alzheimer’s disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

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de Rojas, Itziar, Moreno-Grau, Sonia, Tesi, Niccolo, Grenier-Boley, Benjamin, Andrade, Victor, Jansen, Iris E., Pedersen, Nancy L., Stringa, Najada, Zettergren, Anna, Hernández, Isabel, Antúnez, Carmen, Antonell, Anna, Tankard, Rick M., Bis, Joshua C., Sims, Rebecca, Bellenguez, Céline, Quintela, Inés, González-Perez, Antonio, Calero, Miguel, Macías, Juan, Blesa, Rafael, Cervera-Carles, Laura, Menéndez-González, Manuel, Royo, Jose Luís, Moreno, Fermin, Huerto Vilas, Raquel, Baquero, Miquel, Diez-Fairen, Mónica, Lage, Carmen, García-González, Pablo, Valero, Sergi, Ullgren, Abbe, Naj, Adam C., Lemstra, Afina W., Benussi, Alberto, Rábano, Alberto, Padovani, Alessandro, Squassina, Alessio, de Mendonça, Alexandre, Arias Pastor, Alfonso, Kok, Almar A. L., Meggy, Alun, Pastor, Ana Belén, Espinosa, Ana, Corma-Gómez, Anaïs, Sanabria, Ángela, DeStefano, Anita L., Schneider, Anja, Haapasalo, Annakaisa, Kinhult Ståhlbom, Anne, Tybjærg-Hansen, Anne, Hartmann, Annette M., Spottke, Annika, Corbatón-Anchuelo, Arturo, Rongve, Arvid, Borroni, Barbara, Arosio, Beatrice, Nacmias, Benedetta, Nordestgaard, Børge G., Kunkle, Brian W., Charbonnier, Camille, Masullo, Carlo, Martínez Rodríguez, Carmen, Muñoz-Fernandez, Carmen, Dufouil, Carole, Graff, Caroline, Ferreira, Catarina B., Chillotti, Caterina, Reynolds, Chandra A., Fenoglio, Chiara, Van Broeckhoven, Christine, Clark, Christopher, Pisanu, Claudia, Satizabal, Claudia L., Holmes, Clive, Buiza-Rueda, Dolores, Aarsland, Dag, Rujescu, Dan, Alcolea, Daniel, Galimberti, Daniela, Wallon, David, Seripa, Davide, Grünblatt, Edna, Dardiotis, Efthimios, Düzel, Emrah, Scarpini, Elio, Conti, Elisa, Rubino, Elisa, Gelpi, Ellen, Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Eloy, Duron, Emmanuelle, Boerwinkle, Eric, Ferri, Evelyn, Tagliavini, Fabrizio, Küçükali, Fahri, Pasquier, Florence, Sanchez-Garcia, Florentino, Mangialasche, Francesca, Jessen, Frank, Nicolas, Gaël, Selbæk, Geir, Ortega, Gemma, Chêne, Geneviève, Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios, Rossi, Giacomina, Spalletta, Gianfranco, Giaccone, Giorgio, Grande, Giulia, Binetti, Giuliano, Papenberg, Goran, Hampel, Harald, Bailly, Henri, Zetterberg, Henrik, Soininen, Hilkka, Karlsson, Ida K., Alvarez, Ignacio, Appollonio, Ildebrando, Giegling, Ina, Skoog, Ingmar, Saltvedt, Ingvild, Rainero, Innocenzo, Rosas Allende, Irene, Hort, Jakub, Diehl-Schmid, Janine, Van Dongen, Jasper, Vidal, Jean-Sebastien, Lehtisalo, Jenni, Wiltfang, Jens, Thomassen, Jesper Qvist, Kornhuber, Johannes, Haines, Jonathan L., Vogelgsang, Jonathan, Pineda, Juan A., Fortea, Juan, Popp, Julius, Deckert, Jürgen, Buerger, Katharina, Morgan, Kevin, Fließbach, Klaus, Sleegers, Kristel, Molina-Porcel, Laura, Kilander, Lena, Weinhold, Leonie, Farrer, Lindsay A., Wang, Li-San, Kleineidam, Luca, Farotti, Lucia, Parnetti, Lucilla, Tremolizzo, Lucio, Hausner, Lucrezia, Benussi, Luisa, Froelich, Lutz, Ikram, M. Arfan, Deniz-Naranjo, M. Candida, Tsolaki, Magda, Rosende-Roca, Maitée, Löwenmark, Malin, Hulsman, Marc, Spallazzi, Marco, Pericak-Vance, Margaret A., Esiri, Margaret, Bernal Sánchez-Arjona, María, Dalmasso, Maria Carolina, Martínez-Larrad, María Teresa, Arcaro, Marina, Nöthen, Markus M., Fernández-Fuertes, Marta, Dichgans, Martin, Ingelsson, Martin, Herrmann, Martin J., Scherer, Martin, Vyhnalek, Martin, Kosmidis, Mary H., Yannakoulia, Mary, Schmid, Matthias, Ewers, Michael, Heneka, Michael T., Wagner, Michael, Scamosci, Michela, Kivipelto, Miia, Hiltunen, Mikko, Zulaica, Miren, Alegret, Montserrat, Fornage, Myriam, Roberto, Natalia, van Schoor, Natasja M., Seidu, Nazib M., Banaj, Nerisa, Armstrong, Nicola J., Scarmeas, Nikolaos, Scherbaum, Norbert, Goldhardt, Oliver, Hanon, Oliver, Peters, Oliver, Skrobot, Olivia Anna, Quenez, Olivier, Lerch, Ondrej, Bossù, Paola, Caffarra, Paolo, Dionigi Rossi, Paolo, Sakka, Paraskevi, Mecocci, Patrizia, Hoffmann, Per, Holmans, Peter A., Fischer, Peter, Riederer, Peter, Yang, Qiong, Marshall, Rachel, Kalaria, Rajesh N., Mayeux, Richard, Vandenberghe, Rik, Cecchetti, Roberta, Ghidoni, Roberta, Frikke-Schmidt, Ruth, Sorbi, Sandro, Hägg, Sara, Engelborghs, Sebastiaan, Helisalmi, Seppo, Botne Sando, Sigrid, Kern, Silke, Archetti, Silvana, Boschi, Silvia, Fostinelli, Silvia, Gil, Silvia, Mendoza, Silvia, Mead, Simon, Ciccone, Simona, Djurovic, Srdjan, Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefanie, Riedel-Heller, Steffi, Kuulasmaa, Teemu, del Ser, Teodoro, Lebouvier, Thibaud, Polak, Thomas, Ngandu, Tiia, Grimmer, Timo, Bessi, Valentina, Escott-Price, Valentina, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Deramecourt, Vincent, Maier, Wolfgang, Jian, Xueqiu, Pijnenburg, Yolande A. L., Smith, A. David, Saenz, Aldo, Bizzarro, Alessandra, Lauria, Alessandra, Vacca, Alessandro, Solomon, Alina, Anastasiou, Anna, Richardson, Anna, Boland, Anne, Koivisto, Anne, Daniele, Antonio, Greco, Antonio, Marianthi, Arnaoutoglou, McGuinness, Bernadette, Fin, Bertrand, Ferrari, Camilla, Custodero, Carlo, Ferrarese, Carlo, Ingino, Carlos, Mangone, Carlos, Reyes Toso, Carlos, Martínez, Carmen, Cuesta, Carolina, Muchnik, Carolina, Joachim, Catharine, Ortiz, Cecilia, Besse, Céline, Johansson, Charlotte, Zoia, Chiara Paola, Laske, Christoph, Anastasiou, Costas, Palacio, Dana Lis, Politis, Daniel G., Janowitz, Daniel, Craig, David, Mann, David M., Neary, David, Jürgen, Deckert, Daian, Delphine, Belezhanska, Diyana, Kohler, Eduardo, Castaño, Eduardo M., Koutsouraki, Effrosyni, Chipi, Elena, De Roeck, Ellen, Costantini, Emanuele, Vardy, Emma R. L. C., Piras, Fabrizio, Roveta, Fausto, Piras, Federica, Prestia, Federico Ariel, Assogna, Francesca, Salani, Francesca, Sala, Gessica, Lacidogna, Giordano, Novack, Gisela, Wilcock, Gordon, Thonberg, Håkan, Kölsch, Heike, Weber, Heike, Boecker, Henning, Etchepareborda, Ignacio, Piaceri, Irene, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Lindström, Jaana, Laczo, Jan, Johnston, Janet, Deleuze, Jean-François, Harris, Jenny, Schott, Jonathan M., Priller, Josef, Bacha, Juan Ignacio, Snowden, Julie, Lisso, Julieta, Mihova, Kalina Yonkova, Traykov, Latchezar, Morelli, Laura, Brusco, Luis Ignacio, Rainer, Malik, Takalo, Mari, Bjerke, Maria, Del Zompo, Maria, Serpente, Maria, Sanchez Abalos, Mariana, Rios, Mario, Peltonen, Markku, Herrman, Martin J., Kohler, Matias, Rojo, Matias, Jones, Matthew, Orsini, Michela, Medel, Nancy, Olivar, Natividad, Fox, Nick C., Salvadori, Nicola, Hooper, Nigel M., Galeano, Pablo, Solis, Patricia, Bastiani, Patrizia, Passmore, Peter, Heun, Reinhard, Antikainen, Riitta, Olaso, Robert, Perneczky, Robert, Germani, Sandra, López-García, Sara, Love, Seth, Mehrabian, Shima, Bagnoli, Silvia, Kochen, Silvia, Andreoni, Simona, Teipel, Stefan, Todd, Stephen, Pickering-Brown, Stuart, Natunen, Teemu, Tegos, Thomas, Laatikainen, Tiina, Strandberg, Timo, Polvikoski, Tuomo M., Matoska, Vaclav, Ciullo, Valentina, Cores, Valeria, Solfrizzi, Vincenzo, Lisetti, Viviana, Sevillano, Zulma, Abdelnour, C., Aguilera, N., Alarcon, E., Alegret, M., Benaque, A., Boada, M., Buendia, M., Cañabate, P., Carracedo, A., de Rojas, I., Diego, S., Espinosa, A., Gailhajenet, A., García-González, P., Gil, S., Guitart, M., González-Pérez, A., Hernández, I., Ibarria, M., Lafuente, A., Macias, J., Maroñas, O., Martín, E., Martínez, M.T., Marquié, M., Mauleón, A., Montrreal, L., Moreno-Grau, S., Moreno, M., Orellana, A., Ortega, G., Pancho, A., Pelejá, E., Pérez-Cordon, A., Pineda, J.A., Preckler, S., Quintela, I., Real, L.M., Rosende-Roca, M., Ruiz, A., Sáez, M.E., Sanabria, A., Serrano-Rios, M., Sotolongo-Grau, O., Tárraga, L., Valero, S., Vargas, L., Adarmes-Gómez, A.D., Alarcón-Martín, E., Alonso, M.D., Álvarez, I., Álvarez, V., Amer-Ferrer, G., Antequera, M., Antúnez, C., Baquero, M., Bernal, M., Blesa, R., Bullido, M.J., Burguera, J.A., Calero, M., Carrillo, F., Carrión-Claro, M., Casajeros, M.J., Clarimón, J., Cruz-Gamero, J.M., de Pancorbo, M.M., del Ser, T., Diez-Fairen, M., Escuela, R., Garrote-Espina, L., Fortea, J., Franco-Macías, E., Frank-García, A., Garcia Madrona, S., Gómez-Garre, P., Hevilla, S., Jesús, S., Labrador Espinosa, M.A., Lage, C., Legaz, A., Lleó, A., Lopez de Munain, A., López-García, S., Macias-García, D., Manzanares, S., Marín, M., Marín-Muñoz, J., Marín, T., Martín Montes, A., Martínez, B., Martínez, C., Martínez, V., Martínez-Lage Álvarez, P., Medina, M., Mendioroz Iriarte, M., Menéndez-González, M., Mir, P., Molinuevo, J.L., Pastor, P., Pérez Tur, J., Periñán-Tocino, T., Pineda-Sanchez, R., Piñol-Ripoll, G., Rábano, A., Real de Asúa, D., Rodrigo, S., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, E., Royo, J.L., Sanchez del Valle Díaz, R., Sánchez-Juan, P., Sastre, I., Vicente, M.P., Vigo-Ortega, R., Vivancos, L., Macleod, C., McCracken, C., Brayne, Carol, Bresner, Catherine, Grozeva, Detelina, Bellou, Eftychia, Sommerville, Ewen W., Matthews, F., Leonenko, Ganna, Menzies, Georgina, Windle, Gill, Harwood, Janet, Phillips, Judith, Bennett, K., Luckuck, Lauren, Clare, Linda, Woods, Robert, Saad, Salha, Burholt, Vanessa, Kehoe, Patrick Gavin, Garcia-Ribas, Guillermo, Sánchez-Juan, Pascual, Pastor, Pau, Pérez-Tur, Jordi, Piñol-Ripoll, Gerard, Lopez de Munain, Adolfo, García-Alberca, Jose María, Bullido, María J., Álvarez, Victoria, Lleó, Alberto, Real, Luis M., Mir, Pablo, Medina, Miguel, Scheltens, Philip, Holstege, Henne, Marquié, Marta, Sáez, María Eugenia, Carracedo, Ángel, Amouyel, Philippe, Schellenberg, Gerard D., Williams, Julie, Seshadri, Sudha, van Duijn, Cornelia M., Mather, Karen A., Sánchez-Valle, Raquel, Serrano-Ríos, Manuel, Orellana, Adelina, Tárraga, Lluís, Blennow, Kaj, Huisman, Martijn, Andreassen, Ole A., Posthuma, Danielle, Clarimón, Jordi, Boada, Mercè, van der Flier, Wiesje M., Ramirez, Alfredo, Lambert, Jean-Charles, van der Lee, Sven J., Ruiz, Agustín, Smith, A David, Saenz, Aldo, Bizzarro, Alessandra, Lauria, Alessandra, Vacca, Alessandro, Solomon, Alina, Anastasiou, Anna, Richardson, Anna, Boland, Anne, Koivisto, Anne, Daniele, Antonio, Greco, Antonio, Marianthi, Arnaoutoglou, McGuinness, Bernadette, Fin, Bertrand, Ferrari, Camilla, Custodero, Carlo, Ferrarese, Carlo, Ingino, Carlos, Mangone, Carlos, Reyes Toso, Carlos, Martínez, Carmen, Cuesta, Carolina, Muchnik, Carolina, Joachim, Catharine, Ortiz, Cecilia, Besse, Céline, Johansson, Charlotte, Zoia, Chiara Paola, Laske, Christoph, Anastasiou, Costas, Palacio, Dana Lis, Politis, Daniel G, Janowitz, Daniel, Craig, David, Mann, David M, Neary, David, Jürgen, Deckert, Daian, Delphine, Belezhanska, Diyana, Kohler, Eduardo, Castaño, Eduardo M, Koutsouraki, Effrosyni, Chipi, Elena, De Roeck, Ellen, Costantini, Emanuele, Vardy, Emma R L C, Piras, Fabrizio, Roveta, Fausto, Piras, Federica, Prestia, Federico Ariel, Assogna, Francesca, Salani, Francesca, Sala, Gessica, Lacidogna, Giordano, Novack, Gisela, Wilcock, Gordon, Thonberg, Håkan, Kölsch, Heike, Weber, Heike, Boecker, Henning, Etchepareborda, Ignacio, Piaceri, Irene, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Lindström, Jaana, Laczo, Jan, Johnston, Janet, Deleuze, Jean-François, Harris, Jenny, Schott, Jonathan M, Priller, Josef, Bacha, Juan Ignacio, Snowden, Julie, Lisso, Julieta, Mihova, Kalina Yonkova, Traykov, Latchezar, Morelli, Laura, Brusco, Luis Ignacio, Rainer, Malik, Takalo, Mari, Bjerke, Maria, Del Zompo, Maria, Serpente, Maria, Sanchez Abalos, Mariana, Rios, Mario, Peltonen, Markku, Herrman, Martin J, Kohler, Matias, Rojo, Matias, Jones, Matthew, Orsini, Michela, Medel, Nancy, Olivar, Natividad, Fox, Nick C, Salvadori, Nicola, Hooper, Nigel M, Galeano, Pablo, Solis, Patricia, Bastiani, Patrizia, Passmore, Peter, Heun, Reinhard, Antikainen, Riitta, Olaso, Robert, Perneczky, Robert, Germani, Sandra, López-García, Sara, Love, Seth, Mehrabian, Shima, Bagnoli, Silvia, Kochen, Silvia, Andreoni, Simona, Teipel, Stefan, Todd, Stephen, Pickering-Brown, Stuart, Natunen, Teemu, Tegos, Thomas, Laatikainen, Tiina, Strandberg, Timo, Polvikoski, Tuomo M, Matoska, Vaclav, Ciullo, Valentina, Cores, Valeria, Solfrizzi, Vincenzo, Lisetti, Viviana, Sevillano, Zulma, Abdelnour, C., Aguilera, N., Alarcon, E., Alegret, M., Benaque, A., Boada, M., Buendia, M., Cañabate, P., Carracedo, A., Corbatón-Anchuelo, A., de Rojas, I., Diego, S., Espinosa, A., Gailhajenet, A., García-González, P., Gil, S., Guitart, M., González-Pérez, A., Hernández, I., Ibarria, M., Lafuente, A., Macias, J., Maroñas, O., Martín, E., Martínez, M. T., Marquié, M., Mauleón, A., Montrreal, L., Moreno-Grau, S., Moreno, M., Orellana, A., Ortega, G., Pancho, A., Pelejá, E., Pérez-Cordon, A., Pineda, J. A., Preckler, S., Quintela, I., Real, L. M., Rosende-Roca, M., Ruiz, A., Sáez, M. E., Sanabria, A., Serrano-Rios, M., Sotolongo-Grau, O., Tárraga, L., Valero, S., Vargas, L., Adarmes-Gómez, A. D., Alarcón-Martín, E., Alonso, M. D., Álvarez, I., Álvarez, V., Amer-Ferrer, G., Antequera, M., Antúnez, C., Baquero, M., Bernal, M., Blesa, R., Buiza-Rueda, D., Bullido, M. J., Burguera, J. A., Calero, M., Carrillo, F., Carrión-Claro, M., Casajeros, M. J., Clarimón, J., Cruz-Gamero, J. M., de Pancorbo, M. M., Del Ser, T., Diez-Fairen, M., Escuela, R., Garrote-Espina, L., Fortea, J., Franco-Macías, E., Frank-García, A., García-Alberca, J. M., Garcia Madrona, S., Garcia-Ribas, G., Gómez-Garre, P., Hevilla, S., Jesús, S., Labrador Espinosa, M. A., Lage, C., Legaz, A., Lleó, A., Lopez de Munain, A., López-García, S., Macias-García, D., Manzanares, S., Marín, M., Marín-Muñoz, J., Marín, T., Martín Montes, A., Martínez, B., Martínez, C., Martínez, V., Martínez-Lage Álvarez, P., Medina, M., Mendioroz Iriarte, M., Menéndez-González, M., Mir, P., Molinuevo, J. L., Pastor, P., Pérez Tur, J., Periñán-Tocino, T., Pineda-Sanchez, R., Piñol-Ripoll, G., Rábano, A., Real de Asúa, D., Rodrigo, S., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, E., Royo, J. L., Sanchez Del Valle Díaz, R., Sánchez-Juan, P., Sastre, I., Vicente, M. P., Vigo-Ortega, R., Vivancos, L., Macleod, C., McCracken, C., Brayne, Carol, Bresner, Catherine, Grozeva, Detelina, Bellou, Eftychia, Sommerville, Ewen W, Matthews, F., Leonenko, Ganna, Menzies, Georgina, Windle, Gill, Harwood, Janet, Phillips, Judith, Bennett, K., Luckuck, Lauren, Clare, Linda, Woods, Robert, Saad, Salha, Burholt, Vanessa, Rongve, Arvid, Brussels Heritage Lab, Clinical sciences, Neuroprotection & Neuromodulation, and Neurology

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polygenic risk scores, Multidisciplinary, Common variants, Neuroscience(all), neurology, Medizin, General Physics and Astronomy, ddc:500, General Chemistry, Alzheimer's disease, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, RISK STRATIFICATION
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The original version of this Article omitted from the author list the 212th author Patrizia Mecocci, who is from the Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy. Consequently, the “Sample Contribution” section of Author Contributions was updated to add “P.M” between “P.D.” and “R.C.”. Additionally, the original version of this Article contained the incorrect affiliation for author Patrick Gavin Kehoe, which incorrectly read “German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany”. The correct version replaces this affiliation with “Bristol Medical School (THS), University of Bristol, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK”. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article. CA extern

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2023

8. Network structure and transcriptomic vulnerability shape atrophy in frontotemporal dementia

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Shafiei, Golia, Bazinet, Vincent, Dadar, Mahsa, Manera, Ana L., Collins, D. Louis, Dagher, Alain, Borroni, Barbara, Sanchez-Valle, Raquel, Moreno, Fermin, Laforce, Robert, Graff, Caroline, Synofzik, Matthis, Galimberti, Daniela, Rowe, James B., Masellis, Mario, Tartaglia, Maria Carmela, Finger, Elizabeth, Vandenberghe, Rik, de Mendonça, Alexandre, Tagliavini, Fabrizio, Santana, Isabel, Butler, Chris, Gerhard, Alex, Danek, Adrian, Levin, Johannes, Otto, Markus, Sorbi, Sandro, Jiskoot, Lize C., Seelaar, Harro, van Swieten, John C., Rohrer, Jonathan D., Misic, Bratislav, Ducharme, Simon, Rosen, Howard, Dickerson, Bradford C., Domoto-Reilly, Kimoko, Knopman, David, Boeve, Bradley F., Boxer, Adam L., Kornak, John, Miller, Bruce L., Seeley, William W., Gorno-Tempini, Maria-Luisa, McGinnis, Scott, Mandelli, Maria Luisa, Esteve, Aitana Sogorb, Nelson, Annabel, Bouzigues, Arabella, Heller, Carolin, Greaves, Caroline V., Cash, David, Thomas, David L., Todd, Emily, Benotmane, Hanya, Zetterberg, Henrik, Swift, Imogen J., Nicholas, Jennifer, Samra, Kiran, Russell, Lucy L., Bocchetta, Martina, Shafei, Rachelle, Convery, Rhian S., Timberlake, Carolyn, Cope, Thomas, Rittman, Timothy, Benussi, Alberto, Premi, Enrico, Gasparotti, Roberto, Archetti, Silvana, Gazzina, Stefano, Cantoni, Valentina, Arighi, Andrea, Fenoglio, Chiara, Scarpini, Elio, Fumagalli, Giorgio, Borracci, Vittoria, Rossi, Giacomina, Giaccone, Giorgio, Di Fede, Giuseppe, Caroppo, Paola, Tiraboschi, Pietro, Prioni, Sara, Redaelli, Veronica, Tang-Wai, David, Rogaeva, Ekaterina, Castelo-Branco, Miguel, Freedman, Morris, Keren, Ron, Black, Sandra, Mitchell, Sara, Shoesmith, Christen, Bartha, Robart, Rademakers, Rosa, van Der Ende, Emma, Poos, Jackie, Papma, Janne M., Giannini, Lucia, van Minkelen, Rick, Pijnenburg, Yolande, Nacmias, Benedetta, Ferrari, Camilla, Polito, Cristina, Lombardi, Gemma, Bessi, Valentina, Veldsman, Michele, Andersson, Christin, Thonberg, Hakan, Öijerstedt, Linn, Jelic, Vesna, Thompson, Paul, Langheinrich, Tobias, Lladó, Albert, Antonell, Anna, Olives, Jaume, Balasa, Mircea, Bargalló, Nuria, Borrego-Ecija, Sergi, Verdelho, Ana, Maruta, Carolina, Ferreira, Catarina B., Miltenberger, Gabriel, Simões do Couto, Frederico, Gabilondo, Alazne, Gorostidi, Ana, Villanua, Jorge, Cañada, Marta, Tainta, Mikel, Zulaica, Miren, Barandiaran, Myriam, Alves, Patricia, Bender, Benjamin, Wilke, Carlo, Graf, Lisa, Vogels, Annick, Vandenbulcke, Mathieu, Van Damme, Philip, Bruffaerts, Rose, Rosa-Neto, Pedro, Gauthier, Serge, Camuzat, Agnès, Brice, Alexis, Bertrand, Anne, Funkiewiez, Aurélie, Rinaldi, Daisy, Saracino, Dario, Colliot, Olivier, Sayah, Sabrina, Prix, Catharina, Wlasich, Elisabeth, Wagemann, Olivia, Loosli, Sandra, Schönecker, Sonja, Hoegen, Tobias, Lombardi, Jolina, Anderl-Straub, Sarah, Rollin, Adeline, Kuchcinski, Gregory, Bertoux, Maxime, Lebouvier, Thibaud, Deramecourt, Vincent, Santiago, Beatriz, Duro, Diana, Leitão, Maria João, Almeida, Maria Rosario, Tábuas-Pereira, Miguel, Afonso, Sónia, Engel, Annerose, Polyakova, Maryna, Fede, Giuseppe Di, do Couto, Frederico Simões, Shafiei, Golia [0000-0002-2036-5571], Dadar, Mahsa [0000-0003-4008-2672], Collins, D Louis [0000-0002-8432-7021], Dagher, Alain [0000-0002-0945-5779], Sanchez-Valle, Raquel [0000-0001-7750-896X], Graff, Caroline [0000-0002-9949-2951], Synofzik, Matthis [0000-0002-2280-7273], Masellis, Mario [0000-0002-6244-2096], Jiskoot, Lize C [0000-0002-8120-7366], Seelaar, Harro [0000-0003-1989-7527], Misic, Bratislav [0000-0003-0307-2862], Ducharme, Simon [0000-0002-7309-1113], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
Aging, connectome, disease epicentre, frontotemporal dementia, gene expression, network spreading, GENetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative, Medizin, Neurodegenerative, Neuropsychological Tests, Alzheimer's Disease, diagnostic imaging [Frontotemporal Dementia], Medical and Health Sciences, Pick Disease of the Brain, Settore BIO/13 - Biologia Applicata, pathology [Brain], Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Neuroimaging Initiative, Acquired Cognitive Impairment, Connectome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Humans, ddc:610, Aetiology, genetics [Frontotemporal Dementia], pathology [Atrophy], Neurology & Neurosurgery, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Neurosciences, Alzheimer's Disease including Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD), Brain, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Brain Disorders, Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), pathology [Pick Disease of the Brain], Neurological, pathology [Frontotemporal Dementia], Dementia, Neurology (clinical), Atrophy, Transcriptome
Abstract

Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. Connections among brain regions allow pathological perturbations to spread from a single source region to multiple regions. Patterns of neurodegeneration in multiple diseases, including behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), resemble the large-scale functional systems, but how bvFTD-related atrophy patterns relate to structural network organization remains unknown. Here we investigate whether neurodegeneration patterns in sporadic and genetic bvFTD are conditioned by connectome architecture. Regional atrophy patterns were estimated in both genetic bvFTD (75 patients, 247 controls) and sporadic bvFTD (70 patients, 123 controls). First, we identified distributed atrophy patterns in bvFTD, mainly targeting areas associated with the limbic intrinsic network and insular cytoarchitectonic class. Regional atrophy was significantly correlated with atrophy of structurally- and functionally-connected neighbours, demonstrating that network structure shapes atrophy patterns. The anterior insula was identified as the predominant group epicentre of brain atrophy using data-driven and simulation-based methods, with some secondary regions in frontal ventromedial and antero-medial temporal areas. We found that FTD-related genes, namely C9orf72 and TARDBP, confer local transcriptomic vulnerability to the disease, modulating the propagation of pathology through the connectome. Collectively, our results demonstrate that atrophy patterns in sporadic and genetic bvFTD are jointly shaped by global connectome architecture and local transcriptomic vulnerability, providing an explanation as to how heterogenous pathological entities can lead to the same clinical syndrome. Canada First Research Excellence Fund, awarded to McGill University for the Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives initiative. B.M. acknowledges support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC Discovery Grant RGPIN #017-04265) and from the Canada Research Chairs Program. S.D. receives salary support from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec—Santé (FRQS). G.S. acknowledges support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Fonds de recherche du Québec—Nature et Technologies (FRQNT). V.B. acknowledges support from the Fonds de recherche du Québec—Nature et Technologies (FRQNT). FTLDNI data collection and sharing was funded by the Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Neuroimaging Initiative (National Institutes of Health Grant R01 AG032306) and is coordinated through the University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center. FTLDNI data are disseminated by the Laboratory for Neuro Imaging at the University of Southern California.

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2022

9. Comparison of clinical rating scales in genetic frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI cohort

Author

Peakman, Georgia, Russell, Lucy L., Convery, Rhian S., Nicholas, Jennifer M., van Swieten, John C., Jiskoot, Lize C., Moreno, Fermin, Sanchez-Valle, Raquel, Laforce, Robert, Graff, Caroline, Masellis, Mario, Tartaglia, Maria Carmela, Rowe, James B., Borroni, Barbara, Finger, Elizabeth, Synofzik, Matthis, Galimberti, Daniela, Vandenberghe, Rik, de Mendonça, Alexandre, Butler, Chris R., Gerhard, Alex, Ducharme, Simon, Le Ber, Isabelle, Tagliavini, Fabrizio, Santana, Isabel, Pasquier, Florence, Levin, Johannes, Danek, Adrian, Otto, Markus, Sorbi, Sandro, Rohrer, Jonathan D., Afonso, Sónia, Almeida, Maria Rosario, Anderl-Straub, Sarah, Andersson, Christin, Antonell, Anna, Archetti, Silvana, Arighi, Andrea, Balasa, Mircea, Barandiaran, Myriam, Bargalló, Nuria, Bartha, Robart, Bender, Benjamin, Benussi, Alberto, Bertoux, Maxime, Bertrand, Anne, Bessi, Valentina, Black, Sandra, Bocchetta, Martina, Borrego-Ecija, Sergi, Bras, Jose, Brice, Alexis, Bruffaerts, Rose, Camuzat, Agnès, Cañada, Marta, Cantoni, Valentina, Caroppo, Paola, Cash, David, Castelo-Branco, Miguel, Colliot, Olivier, Cope, Thomas, Deramecourt, Vincent, de Arriba, María, Di Fede, Giuseppe, Díez, Alina, Duro, Diana, Fenoglio, Chiara, Ferrari, Camilla, Ferreira, Catarina B., Fox, Nick, Freedman, Morris, Fumagalli, Giorgio, Funkiewiez, Aurélie, Gabilondo, Alazne, Gasparotti, Roberto, Gauthier, Serge, Gazzina, Stefano, Giaccone, Giorgio, Gorostidi, Ana, Greaves, Caroline, Guerreiro, Rita, Heller, Carolin, Hoegen, Tobias, Indakoetxea, Begoña, Jelic, Vesna, Karnath, Hans-Otto, Keren, Ron, Kuchcinski, Gregory, Langheinrich, Tobias, Lebouvier, Thibaud, Leitão, Maria João, Lladó, Albert, Lombardi, Gemma, Loosli, Sandra, Maruta, Carolina, Mead, Simon, Meeter, Lieke, Miltenberger, Gabriel, van Minkelen, Rick, Mitchell, Sara, Moore, Katrina, Nacmias, Benedetta, Nelson, Annabel, Öijerstedt, Linn, Olives, Jaume, Ourselin, Sebastien, Padovani, Alessandro, Panman, Jessica, Papma, Janne M., Pijnenburg, Yolande, Polito, Cristina, Premi, Enrico, Prioni, Sara, Prix, Catharina, Rademakers, Rosa, Redaelli, Veronica, Rinaldi, Daisy, Rittman, Tim, Rogaeva, Ekaterina, Rollin, Adeline, Rosa-Neto, Pedro, Rossi, Giacomina, Rossor, Martin, Santiago, Beatriz, Saracino, Dario, Sayah, Sabrina, Scarpini, Elio, Schönecker, Sonja, Seelaar, Harro, Semler, Elisa, Shafei, Rachelle, Shoesmith, Christen, Swift, Imogen, Tábuas-Pereira, Miguel, Tainta, Mikel, Taipa, Ricardo, Tang-Wai, David, Thomas, David L., Thompson, Paul, Thonberg, Hakan, Timberlake, Carolyn, Tiraboschi, Pietro, Todd, Emily, van Damme, Philip, Vandenbulcke, Mathieu, Veldsman, Michele, Verdelho, Ana, Villanua, Jorge, Warren, Jason, Wilke, Carlo, Woollacott, Ione, Wlasich, Elisabeth, Zetterberg, Henrik, Zulaica, Miren, Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Neurodegeneration, University College of London [London] (UCL), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC), Donostia International Physics Center - DIPC (SPAIN), Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)-University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Centre Hospitalier Université Laval [Quebec] (CHUL), CHU de Québec–Université Laval, Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval)-Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval), Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm], University of Toronto, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), University of Brescia, University of Western Ontario (UWO), Universitätsklinikum Tübingen - University Hospital of Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen = Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Lusófona University [Lisbon], University of Oxford, University of Manchester [Manchester], McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Institut du Cerveau = Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d'Alzheimer [CHU Pitié-Salpétriêre] (IM2A), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Service de Neurologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], IFR70-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico 'Carlo Besta', University of Coimbra [Portugal] (UC), Lille Neurosciences & Cognition - U 1172 (LilNCog), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lille-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), University of Ulm (UUlm), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), HAL-SU, Gestionnaire, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), University of Oxford [Oxford], Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d'Alzheimer [Paris] (IM2A), Sorbonne Université (SU), Lille Neurosciences & Cognition - U 1172 (LilNCog (ex-JPARC)), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Peakman, Georgia [0000-0002-3319-138X], Convery, Rhian S [0000-0002-9477-1812], Van Swieten, John C [0000-0001-6278-6844], Jiskoot, Lize C [0000-0002-1120-1858], Rowe, James B [0000-0001-7216-8679], Borroni, Barbara [0000-0001-9340-9814], Finger, Elizabeth [0000-0003-4461-7427], Galimberti, Daniela [0000-0002-9284-5953], Gerhard, Alex [0000-0002-8071-6062], Ducharme, Simon [0000-0002-7309-1113], Le Ber, Isabelle [0000-0002-2508-5181], Danek, Adrian [0000-0001-8857-5383], Otto, Markus [0000-0002-6647-5944], Sorbi, Sandro [0000-0002-0380-6670], Rohrer, Jonathan D [0000-0002-6155-8417], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, and Genetic FTD Initiative (GENFI)

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Oncology, Medizin, LANGUAGE, Disease, Genetic FTD Initiative (GENFI), Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, diagnosis [Frontotemporal Dementia], ddc:150, C9orf72, CRITERIA, 030212 general & internal medicine, frontotemporal dementia, C9orf72 Protein, Cross-Sectional Studies, Disease Progression, Frontotemporal Dementia, Humans, Mutation, tau Proteins, Mental Status and Dementia Tests, VERSION, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, Psychiatry, UTILITY, DDC 150 / Psychology, biology, FTD, 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Psychiatry and Mental health, Mutation (genetic algorithm), Cohort, [SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], medicine.symptom, FTLD, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Alzheimer’s disease, Frontotemporal dementia, medicine.medical_specialty, Clinical Dementia Rating, Tau protein, Clinical Neurology, Alzheimerkrankheit, [SDV.GEN.GH] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, DIAGNOSIS, Asymptomatic, VALIDATION, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, mental disorders, medicine, ddc:610, [SDV.NEU] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], Neurodegeneration, Science & Technology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, [SDV.GEN.GPO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE], business.industry, MUTATIONS, medicine.disease, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, biology.protein, [SDV.GEN.GPO] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE], Surgery, Neurology (clinical), Neurosciences & Neurology, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

BackgroundTherapeutic trials are now underway in genetic forms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) but clinical outcome measures are limited. The two most commonly used measures, the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR)+National Alzheimer’s Disease Coordinating Center (NACC) Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) and the FTD Rating Scale (FRS), have yet to be compared in detail in the genetic forms of FTD.MethodsThe CDR+NACC FTLD and FRS were assessed cross-sectionally in 725 consecutively recruited participants from the Genetic FTD Initiative: 457 mutation carriers (77 microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT), 187 GRN, 193 C9orf72) and 268 family members without mutations (non-carrier control group). 231 mutation carriers (51 MAPT, 92 GRN, 88 C9orf72) and 145 non-carriers had available longitudinal data at a follow-up time point.ResultsCross-sectionally, the mean FRS score was lower in all genetic groups compared with controls: GRN mutation carriers mean 83.4 (SD 27.0), MAPT mutation carriers 78.2 (28.8), C9orf72 mutation carriers 71.0 (34.0), controls 96.2 (7.7), p, publishedVersion

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2022

10. Patients with Alzheimer's disease dementia show partially preserved parietal 'hubs' modeled from resting-state alpha electroencephalographic rhythms.

Author

Lopez, Susanna, Del Percio, Claudio, Lizio, Roberta, Noce, Giuseppe, Padovani, Alessandro, Nobili, Flavio, Arnaldi, Dario, Famà, Francesco, Moretti, Davide V., Cagnin, Annachiara, Koch, Giacomo, Benussi, Alberto, Onofrj, Marco, Borroni, Barbara, Soricelli, Andrea, Ferri, Raffaele, Buttinelli, Carla, Giubilei, Franco, Güntekin, Bahar, and Yener, Görsev

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ELECTRODES, STATISTICS, ALZHEIMER'S disease, ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY, ANALYSIS of variance, MULTIVARIATE analysis, MAGNETIC resonance imaging, DEMENTIA, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, RESEARCH funding, STATISTICAL models, DATA analysis software, DATA analysis
Abstract

Introduction: Graph theory models a network by its nodes (the fundamental unit by which graphs are formed) and connections. 'Degree' hubs reflect node centrality (the connection rate), while 'connector' hubs are those linked to several clusters of nodes (mainly long-range connections). Methods: Here, we compared hubs modeled from measures of interdependencies of between-electrode resting-state eyes-closed electroencephalography (rsEEG) rhythms in normal elderly (Nold) and Alzheimer's disease dementia (ADD) participants. At least 5 min of rsEEG was recorded and analyzed. As ADD is considered a 'network disease' and is typically associated with abnormal rsEEG delta (<4 Hz) and alpha rhythms (8-12 Hz) over associative posterior areas, we tested the hypothesis of abnormal posterior hubs from measures of interdependencies of rsEEG rhythms from delta to gamma bands (2-40 Hz) using eLORETA bivariate and multivariate-directional techniques in ADD participants versus Nold participants. Three different definitions of 'connector' hub were used. Results: Convergent results showed that in both the Nold and ADD groups there were significant parietal 'degree' and 'connector' hubs derived from alpha rhythms. These hubs had a prominent outward 'directionality' in the two groups, but that 'directionality' was lower in ADD participants than in Nold participants. Discussion: In conclusion, independent methodologies and hub definitions suggest that ADD patients may be characterized by low outward 'directionality' of partially preserved parietal 'degree' and 'connector' hubs derived from rsEEG alpha rhythms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023
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11. Increasing Brain Gamma Activity Improves Episodic Memory and Restores Cholinergic Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease.

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Benussi, Alberto, Cantoni, Valentina, Grassi, Mario, Brechet, Lucie, Michel, Christoph M., Datta, Abhishek, Thomas, Chris, Gazzina, Stefano, Cotelli, Maria Sofia, Bianchi, Marta, Premi, Enrico, Gadola, Yasmine, Cotelli, Maria, Pengo, Marta, Perrone, Federica, Scolaro, Maria, Archetti, Silvana, Solje, Eino, Padovani, Alessandro, and Pascual‐Leone, Alvaro

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*TRANSCRANIAL alternating current stimulation, *TRANSCRANIAL direct current stimulation, *EPISODIC memory, *ALZHEIMER'S disease, *BRAIN waves, *ALPHA rhythm, *BRAIN stimulation, *VERBAL learning, *ELECTRIC fields
Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to assess whether non‐invasive brain stimulation with transcranial alternating current stimulation at gamma‐frequency (γ‐tACS) applied over the precuneus can improve episodic memory and modulate cholinergic transmission by modulating cerebral rhythms in early Alzheimer's disease (AD). Methods: In this randomized, double‐blind, sham controlled, crossover study, 60 AD patients underwent a clinical and neurophysiological evaluation including assessment of episodic memory and cholinergic transmission pre and post 60 minutes treatment with γ‐tACS targeting the precuneus or sham tACS. In a subset of 10 patients, EEG analysis and individualized modelling of electric field distribution were carried out. Predictors to γ‐tACS efficacy were evaluated. Results: We observed a significant improvement in the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning (RAVL) test immediate recall (p < 0.001) and delayed recall scores (p < 0.001) after γ‐tACS but not after sham tACS. Face‐name associations scores improved with γ‐tACS (p < 0.001) but not after sham tACS. Short latency afferent inhibition, an indirect measure of cholinergic transmission, increased only after γ‐tACS (p < 0.001). ApoE genotype and baseline cognitive impairment were the best predictors of response to γ‐tACS. Clinical improvement correlated with the increase in gamma frequencies in posterior regions and with the amount of predicted electric field distribution in the precuneus. Interpretation: Precuneus γ‐tACS, able to increase γ‐power activity on the posterior brain regions, showed a significant improvement of episodic memory performances, along with restoration of intracortical excitability measures of cholinergic transmission. Response to γ‐tACS was dependent on genetic factors and disease stage. ANN NEUROL 2022;92:322–334 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2022
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12. The role of transcranial magnetic stimulation in the diagnosis of dementia

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Benussi, Alberto, Cantoni, Valentina, and Borroni, Barbara

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Plasticity, Progressive supranuclear palsy, Dementia with Lewy bodies, Short interval intracortical inhibition, Intracortical facilitation, Alzheimer's disease, Corticobasal syndrome, Dementia, Diagnosis, Frontotemporal dementia, Long interval intracortical inhibition, Short latency afferent inhibition, Transcranial magnetic stimulation
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2021

13. Diagnostic Accuracy of the Five-Word Test for Mild Cognitive Impairment Due to Alzheimer's Disease.

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Fornari, Chiara, Mori, Francesco, Zoppi, Nicola, Libri, Ilenia, Silvestri, Chiara, Cosseddu, Maura, Turrone, Rosanna, Maffi, Matteo, Caratozzolo, Salvatore, Borroni, Barbara, Padovani, Alessandro, and Benussi, Alberto

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ALZHEIMER'S disease, MILD cognitive impairment, COGNITIVE testing, MINI-Mental State Examination, AMYLOID plaque
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New diagnostic methods have been developed for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) with the primary purpose of intercepting the transition-phase (mild cognitive impairment, MCI) between normal aging and dementia. We aimed to explore whether the five-word test (FWT) and the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) are predictive for the early diagnosis of MCI due to AD (AD-MCI). We computed ROC analyses to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of MMSE and FWT in predicting abnormal CSF (t-Tau, p-Tau181, Aβ1–42) and amyloid-PET biomarkers. AD-MCI patients showed lower MMSE and FWT scores (all p < 0.001) than non-AD-MCI. The best predictor of amyloid plaques' presence at amyloid-PET imaging was the encoding sub-score of the FWT (AUC = 0.84). Both FWT and MMSE had low/moderate accuracy for the detection of pathological CSF Aβ42, t-Tau and p-Tau181 values, with higher accuracy for the t-Tau/Aβ1–42 ratio. In conclusion, the FWT, as a single-domain cognitive screening test, seems to be prompt and moderately accurate tool for the identification of an underlying AD neuropathological process in patients with MCI, supporting the importance of associating biomarkers evaluation in the work-up of patients with dementing neurodegenerative disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2022
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14. Differences Between Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid p-tau181 and p-tau231 in Early Alzheimer's Disease.

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Pilotto, Andrea, Parigi, Marta, Bonzi, Giulio, Battaglio, Beatrice, Ferrari, Elisabetta, Mensi, Lorenza, Benussi, Alberto, Caratozzolo, Salvatore, Cosseddu, Maura, Turrone, Rosanna, Archetti, Silvana, Ashton, Nicholas J., Zetterberg, Henrik, Giliani, Silvia, and Padovani, Alessandro

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ALZHEIMER'S disease, NERVE tissue proteins, CROSS-sectional method, PHOSPHORYLATION, PEPTIDES
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Plasma phosphorylated tau species have been recently proposed as peripheral markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. In this cross-sectional study including 91 subjects, plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) p-tau181 and p-tau231 levels were elevated in the early symptomatic stages of AD. Plasma p-tau231 and p-tau181 were strongly related to CSF phosphorylated tau, total tau and amyloid and exhibited a high accuracy-close to CSF p-tau231 and p-tau181-to identify AD already in the early stage of the disease. The findings might support the use as diagnostic and prognostic peripheral AD biomarkers in both research and clinical settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2022
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15. Classification accuracy of TMS for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative dementias

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Benussi, Alberto, Grassi, Mario, Palluzzi, Fernando, Koch, Giacomo, Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo, Nardone, Raffaele, Cantoni, Valentina, Dell'Era, Valentina, Premi, Enrico, Martorana, Alessandro, di Lorenzo, Francesco, Bonnì, Sonia, Ranieri, Federico, Capone, Fioravante, Musumeci, Gabriella, Cotelli, Maria Sofia, Padovani, Alessandro, and Borroni, Barbara

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transcranial magnetic stimulation, decision tree, diagnostic accuracy, short interval intracortical inhibition, dementia with Lewy bodies, Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, intracortical facilitation, short latency afferent inhibition
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2020

16. Classification accuracy of TMS for the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment.

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Benussi, Alberto, Grassi, Mario, Palluzzi, Fernando, Cantoni, Valentina, Cotelli, Maria Sofia, Premi, Enrico, Di Lorenzo, Francesco, Pellicciari, Maria Concetta, Ranieri, Federico, Musumeci, Gabriella, Marra, Camillo, Manganotti, Paolo, Nardone, Raffaele, Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo, Koch, Giacomo, and Borroni, Barbara

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To evaluate the performance of a Random Forest (RF) classifier on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) measures in patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). We applied a RF classifier on TMS measures obtained from a multicenter cohort of patients with MCI, including MCI-Alzheimer's Disease (MCI-AD), MCI-frontotemporal dementia (MCI-FTD), MCI-dementia with Lewy bodies (MCI-DLB), and healthy controls (HC). All patients underwent TMS assessment at recruitment (index test), with application of reference clinical criteria, to predict different neurodegenerative disorders. The primary outcome measures were the classification accuracy, precision, recall and F1-score of TMS in differentiating each disorder. 160 participants were included, namely 64 patients diagnosed as MCI-AD, 28 as MCI-FTD, 14 as MCI-DLB, and 47 as healthy controls (HC). A series of 3 binary classifiers was employed, and the prediction model exhibited high classification accuracy (ranging from 0.72 to 0.86), high precision (0.72–0.90), high recall (0.75–0.98), and high F1-scores (0.78–0.92), in differentiating each neurodegenerative disorder. By computing a new classifier, trained and validated on the current cohort of MCI patients, classification indices showed even higher accuracy (ranging from 0.83 to 0.93), precision (0.87–0.89), recall (0.83–1.00), and F1-scores (0.85–0.94). TMS may be considered a useful additional screening tool to be used in clinical practice in the prodromal stages of neurodegenerative dementias. • TMS intracortical excitability measures were assessed in MCI patients. • A random forest classifier was applied to TMS measures. • The classifier showed high accuracy in discriminating different forms of MCI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2021
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17. "Real‐world" eligibility for aducanumab depends on clinical setting and patients' journey.

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Padovani, Alessandro, Caratozzolo, Salvatore, Rozzini, Luca, Pilotto, Andrea, Benussi, Alberto, and Tedeschi, Gioacchino

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CEREBROSPINAL fluid examination, THERAPEUTIC use of monoclonal antibodies, ALZHEIMER'S disease, PATIENT selection, MILD cognitive impairment, MAGNETIC resonance imaging, NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, NEURORADIOLOGY
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See related editorial by Lundebjerg et al. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2022
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18. Serum Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) Is a Marker of Disease Severity in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration.

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Benussi, Alberto, Ashton, Nicholas J., Karikari, Thomas K., Gazzina, Stefano, Premi, Enrico, Benussi, Luisa, Ghidoni, Roberta, Rodriguez, Juan Lantero, Emeršič, Andreja, Binetti, Giuliano, Fostinelli, Silvia, Giunta, Marcello, Gasparotti, Roberto, Zetterberg, Henrik, Blennow, Kaj, Borroni, Barbara, and Arighi, Andrea

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*FRONTOTEMPORAL lobar degeneration, *GLIAL fibrillary acidic protein, *PROGRESSIVE supranuclear palsy, *PROGNOSIS, *SERUM, *ALZHEIMER'S disease, *SINGLE molecules, *RESEARCH, *RESEARCH methodology, *CYTOSKELETAL proteins, *RETROSPECTIVE studies, *MEDICAL cooperation, *EVALUATION research, *SEVERITY of illness index, *COMPARATIVE studies
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Background: It is still unknown if serum glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is a useful marker in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).Objective: To assess the diagnostic and prognostic value of serum GFAP in a large cohort of patients with FTLD.Methods: In this retrospective study, performed on 406 participants, we measured serum GFAP concentration with an ultrasensitive Single molecule array (Simoa) method in patients with FTLD, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and in cognitively unimpaired elderly controls. We assessed the role of GFAP as marker of disease severity by analyzing the correlation with clinical variables, neurophysiological data, and cross-sectional brain imaging. Moreover, we evaluated the role of serum GFAP as a prognostic marker of disease survival.Results: We observed significantly higher levels of serum GFAP in patients with FTLD syndromes, except progressive supranuclear palsy, compared with healthy controls, but not compared with AD patients. In FTLD, serum GFAP levels correlated with measures of cognitive dysfunction and disease severity, and were associated with indirect measures of GABAergic deficit. Serum GFAP concentration was not a significant predictor of survival.Conclusion: Serum GFAP is increased in FTLD, correlates with cognition and GABAergic deficits, and thus shows promise as a biomarker of disease severity in FTLD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2020
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19. Cortical Circuitry and Synaptic Dysfunctions in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias.

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Ranieri, Federico, Benussi, Alberto, Cantone, Mariagiovanna, Ferreri, Florinda, and Márquez-Ruiz, Javier

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*ALZHEIMER'S disease, *DEMENTIA, *THERAPEUTICS, *PATHOLOGICAL physiology, *NEURODEGENERATION, *NEURAL circuitry
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These findings are extremely relevant for the study of subjective cognitive decline, a stage in which patients report self-experienced persistent decline in cognitive capacity in comparison with a previously normal status, potentially concealing a prodromal state of AD, and that will probably become a target of disease-modifying treatments. A main challenge of current research on primary degenerative dementia is establishing a causal and temporal link between structural alterations, synaptic and circuit dysfunction, and cognitive decline. By considering the two major proteinopathies underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyloid beta (A I i ) dysregulation, and Tau phosphorylation, the initial view of A I i peptide accumulation acting as a key upstream event leading to neurodegeneration was put under revision since it has been acknowledged that these two neuropathological processes might be initiated independently [[7]]. [Extracted from the article]

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2021
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20. Stimulation over the cerebellum with a regular figure-of-eight coil induces reduced motor cortex inhibition in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy.

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Benussi, Alberto, Dell'Era, Valentina, Cantoni, Valentina, Turrone, Rosanna, Pilotto, Andrea, Alberici, Antonella, Cotelli, Maria Sofia, Rizzetti, Cristina, Padovani, Alessandro, and Borroni, Barbara

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To determine whether motor cortex inhibition by stimulation over the cerebellum with a figure-of eight coil (MISC8) may be reduced in patients with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP). Paired pulse TMS was used to evaluate MISC8, in patients with different forms of parkinsonism and dementia. The primary outcome measures were sensitivity and specificity of motor cortex inhibition, derived from receiver operator curve analysis, in discriminating PSP from other neurodegenerative disorders. A total of 150 participants met inclusion criteria. According to clinical criteria, the study population included 19 PSP, 26 Parkinson's disease, 25 dementia with Lewy bodies, 15 corticobasal syndrome, 25 frontotemporal dementia and 15 Alzheimer's disease patients, and 25 healthy controls. PSP patients were characterized by a specific impairment of MISC8 (0.99 ± 0.08) compared to the healthy control group and to other neurodegenerative disorders (mean range = 0.63–0.80, all p-values<0.001). Using the best cut-off index, MISC8 differentiated PSP from other diagnoses with an overall sensitivity of 100%, a specificity of 94%, and an accuracy of 97%. TMS is a non-invasive procedure which reliably distinguishes PSP from other neurodegenerative disorders. MISC8 could represent a useful additional diagnostic tool to be used in clinical practice. • The dentato-thalamo-cortical pathway has shown to be impaired in PSP. • CBI has been shown to reflect the integrity of the dentato-thalamo-cortical pathway. • Motor cortex inhibition by cerebellar stimulation was impaired in PSP. • Reduced motor cortex inhibition distinguished PSP from other disorders with high accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2019
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21. Discrimination of atypical parkinsonisms with transcranial magnetic stimulation.

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Benussi, Alberto, Dell'Era, Valentina, Cantoni, Valentina, Ferrari, Clarissa, Caratozzolo, Salvatore, Rozzini, Luca, Alberici, Antonella, Padovani, Alessandro, and Borroni, Barbara

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Background Differential diagnosis of atypical parkinsonian disorders, i.e. dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) or corticobasal syndrome (CBS) still remains problematic. Furthermore, DLB may overlap with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the early stages of disease. Objective To determine whether transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can be used to classify atypical parkinsonian disorders and AD. Methods A paired-pulse TMS multi-paradigm approach assessing multiple intracortical circuits, as short interval intracortical inhibition-facilitation and short latency afferent inhibition, was used to model a decision tree analysis and determine diagnostic accuracy in classifying different neurodegenerative disorders. Results We observed a significant impairment in short latency afferent inhibition in AD and DLB and a significant impairment in short interval intracortical inhibition-facilitation in DLB, PSP and CBS patients. These parameters were used to model a decision tree analysis which yielded an overall diagnostic accuracy of 88.3%, with 90.5% for AD, 85.2% for DLB, 76.0% for CBS-PSP, and 94.9% for healthy controls. Conclusions The assessment of intracortical connectivity with TMS may aid in the differential diagnosis of AD and the atypical parkinsonian disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2018
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22. State-of-the-Art Methods and Emerging Fluid Biomarkers in the Diagnostics of Dementia—A Short Review and Diagnostic Algorithm.

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Solje, Eino, Benussi, Alberto, Buratti, Emanuele, Remes, Anne M., Haapasalo, Annakaisa, Borroni, Barbara, and Brugnolo, Andrea

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*LEWY body dementia, *PROGNOSIS, *FRONTOTEMPORAL dementia, *ALZHEIMER'S disease, *ENZYME-linked immunosorbent assay
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The most common neurodegenerative dementias include Alzheimer's disease (AD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The correct etiology-based diagnosis is pivotal for clinical management of these diseases as well as for the suitable timing and choosing the accurate disease-modifying therapies when these become available. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-based methods, detecting altered levels of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Tau, phosphorylated Tau, and Aβ-42 in AD, allowed the wide use of this set of biomarkers in clinical practice. These analyses demonstrate a high diagnostic accuracy in AD but suffer from a relatively restricted usefulness due to invasiveness and lack of prognostic value. In recent years, the development of novel advanced techniques has offered new state-of-the-art opportunities in biomarker discovery. These include single molecule array technology (SIMOA), a tool for non-invasive analysis of ultra-low levels of central nervous system-derived molecules from biofluids, such as CSF or blood, and real-time quaking (RT-QuIC), developed to analyze misfolded proteins. In the present review, we describe the history of methods used in the fluid biomarker analyses of dementia, discuss specific emerging biomarkers with translational potential for clinical use, and suggest an algorithm for the use of new non-invasive blood biomarkers in clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2021
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23. Plasma p-tau181 and amyloid markers in Alzheimer's disease: A comparison between Lumipulse and SIMOA.

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Quaresima, Virginia, Pilotto, Andrea, Trasciatti, Chiara, Tolassi, Chiara, Parigi, Marta, Bertoli, Diego, Mordenti, Cristina, Galli, Alice, Rizzardi, Andrea, Caratozzolo, Salvatore, Benussi, Alberto, Ashton, Nicholas J., Blennow, Kaj, Zetterberg, Henrik, Giliani, Silvia, Brugnoni, Duilio, and Padovani, Alessandro

Subjects
*ALZHEIMER'S disease, *TAU proteins, *NEURODEGENERATION, *AMYLOID, *TEST validity
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Aim of the project was to evaluate the technical and clinical validity of plasma Lumipulse p-tau, Aβ42 and Aβ40 species and their correlation with CSF core Alzheimer's Disease (AD) markers; a method comparison with SIMOA was also performed. One-hundred-thirthy-three participants, namely 55 A+T+N+ AD, 28 Neurodegenerative disorders (NDD) and 50 controls were enrolled for the study. Lumipulse technical validity showed high stability for p-tau181, Aβ42, and Aβ40, with higher stability of p-tau to repeated freezing thaw cycles. p-tau181 levels detected by both techniques were higher in AD compared to both NDD/controls and exhibited a similar correlation with CSF p-tau levels, whereas Aβ42 levels were slightly lower in AD with both methods. In the comparison between SIMOA and Lumipulse plasma markers, both techniques exhibited similar diagnostic accuracy for AD for p-tau181 (0.87; 95 %CI 0.81–0.94, vs 0.85; 95 %CI 0.78–0.93), whereas the best performance was reached by p-tau181/ Aβ42 Lumipulse ratio (ROC AUC 0.915, 95 %CI 0.86–0.97). The study thus confirmed the construct validity of both Lumipulse and SIMOA techniques for the identification of CSF AD pattern in clinical settings. • Lumipulse technical validity showed high stability for p-tau181, Aβ42, and Aβ40 species. • Lumipulse and SIMOA AD-related markers showed a fair correlation in plasma. • Plasma and CSF p-tau181 and amyloid markers are correlated. • Both techniques showed consistently increased plasma p-tau181 levels in AD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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24. Cortical network modularity changes along the course of frontotemporal and Alzheimer's dementing diseases.

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Franciotti, Raffaella, Moretti, Davide V, Benussi, Alberto, Ferri, Laura, Russo, Mirella, Carrarini, Claudia, Barbone, Filomena, Arnaldi, Dario, Falasca, Nicola W, Koch, Giacomo, Cagnin, Annachiara, Nobili, Flavio M, Babiloni, Claudio, Borroni, Barbara, Padovani, Alessandro, Onofrj, Marco, and Bonanni, Laura

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*ALZHEIMER'S disease, *GRAPH theory, *FUNCTIONAL connectivity, *COGNITION disorders, *FRONTOTEMPORAL dementia, *EPILEPSY
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Cortical network modularity underpins cognitive functions, so we hypothesized its progressive derangement along the course of frontotemporal (FTD) and Alzheimer's (AD) dementing diseases. EEG was recorded in 18 FTD, 18 AD, and 20 healthy control s (HC). In the FTD and AD patients, the EEG recordings were performed at the prodromal stage of dementia, at the onset of dementia, and three years after the onset of dementia. HC underwent three EEG recordings at 2–3-year time interval. Information flows underlying EEG activity recorded at electrode pairs were estimated by means of Mutual Information (MI) analysis. The functional organization of the cortical network was modelled by means of the Graph theory analysis on MI adjacency matrices. Graph theory analysis showed that the main hub of HC (Parietal area) was lost in FTD patients at onset of dementia, substituted by provincial hubs in frontal leads. No changes in global network organization were found in AD. Despite a progressive cognitive impairment during the FTD and AD progression, only the FTD patients showed a derangement in the cortical network modularity, possibly due to dysfunctions in frontal functional connectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2022
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25. Diagnostic contribution and therapeutic perspectives of transcranial magnetic stimulation in dementia.

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Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo, Bella, Rita, Benussi, Alberto, Bologna, Matteo, Borroni, Barbara, Capone, Fioravante, Chen, Kai-Hsiang S., Chen, Robert, Chistyakov, Andrei V., Classen, Joseph, Kiernan, Matthew C., Koch, Giacomo, Lanza, Giuseppe, Lefaucheur, Jean-Pascal, Matsumoto, Hideyuki, Nguyen, Jean-Paul, Orth, Michael, Pascual-Leone, Alvaro, Rektorova, Irena, and Simko, Patrik

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*TRANSCRANIAL magnetic stimulation, *DEMENTIA, *PHYSIOLOGY, *MILD cognitive impairment, *ALZHEIMER'S disease
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• This review presents the contribution of TMS to the management of dementia. • TMS can be used as a biomarker of the excitability and function of cerebral cortex in dementia. • Increasing evidence supports the beneficial effects of rTMS in Alzheimer's disease-related dementias at mild/early stage. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a powerful tool to probe in vivo brain circuits, as it allows to assess several cortical properties such as excitability, plasticity and connectivity in humans. In the last 20 years, TMS has been applied to patients with dementia, enabling the identification of potential markers of the pathophysiology and predictors of cognitive decline; moreover, applied repetitively, TMS holds promise as a potential therapeutic intervention. The objective of this paper is to present a comprehensive review of studies that have employed TMS in dementia and to discuss potential clinical applications, from the diagnosis to the treatment. To provide a technical and theoretical framework, we first present an overview of the basic physiological mechanisms of the application of TMS to assess cortical excitability, excitation and inhibition balance, mechanisms of plasticity and cortico-cortical connectivity in the human brain. We then review the insights gained by TMS techniques into the pathophysiology and predictors of progression and response to treatment in dementias, including Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related dementias and secondary dementias. We show that while a single TMS measure offers low specificity, the use of a panel of measures and/or neurophysiological index can support the clinical diagnosis and predict progression. In the last part of the article, we discuss the therapeutic uses of TMS. So far, only repetitive TMS (rTMS) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and multisite rTMS associated with cognitive training have been shown to be, respectively, possibly (Level C of evidence) and probably (Level B of evidence) effective to improve cognition, apathy, memory, and language in AD patients, especially at a mild/early stage of the disease. The clinical use of this type of treatment warrants the combination of brain imaging techniques and/or electrophysiological tools to elucidate neurobiological effects of neurostimulation and to optimally tailor rTMS treatment protocols in individual patients or specific patient subgroups with dementia or mild cognitive impairment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2021
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26. Clinical diagnostic utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation in neurological disorders. Updated report of an IFCN committee.

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Vucic, Steve, Stanley Chen, Kai-Hsiang, Kiernan, Matthew C., Hallett, Mark, Benninger, David.H., Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo, Rossini, Paolo M, Benussi, Alberto, Berardelli, Alfredo, Currà, Antonio, Krieg, Sandro M, Lefaucheur, Jean-Pascal, Long Lo, Yew, Macdonell, Richard A, Massimini, Marcello, Rosanova, Mario, Picht, Thomas, Stinear, Cathy M, Paulus, Walter, and Ugawa, Yoshikazu

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*TRANSCRANIAL magnetic stimulation, *NEUROLOGICAL disorders, *EVOKED potentials (Electrophysiology), *ALZHEIMER'S disease, *AMYOTROPHIC lateral sclerosis, *EPILEPSY, *MOVEMENT disorders
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• Clinical diagnostic utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been established in neurological disorders. • Paired-pulse TMS exhibits utility in neurodegenerative, movement, episodic, and functional disorders. • TMS-EEG provides novel parameter (cortical excitability, effective connectivity, response complexity) for neurological diseases. The review provides a comprehensive update ( previous report: Chen R, Cros D, Curra A, Di Lazzaro V, Lefaucheur JP, Magistris MR, et al. The clinical diagnostic utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation: report of an IFCN committee. Clin Neurophysiol 2008;119(3):504 – 32 ) on clinical diagnostic utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in neurological diseases. Most TMS measures rely on stimulation of motor cortex and recording of motor evoked potentials. Paired-pulse TMS techniques, incorporating conventional amplitude-based and threshold tracking, have established clinical utility in neurodegenerative, movement, episodic (epilepsy, migraines), chronic pain and functional diseases. Cortical hyperexcitability has emerged as a diagnostic aid in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Single-pulse TMS measures are of utility in stroke, and myelopathy even in the absence of radiological changes. Short-latency afferent inhibition, related to central cholinergic transmission, is reduced in Alzheimer's disease. The triple stimulation technique (TST) may enhance diagnostic utility of conventional TMS measures to detect upper motor neuron involvement. The recording of motor evoked potentials can be used to perform functional mapping of the motor cortex or in preoperative assessment of eloquent brain regions before surgical resection of brain tumors. TMS exhibits utility in assessing lumbosacral/cervical nerve root function, especially in demyelinating neuropathies, and may be of utility in localizing the site of facial nerve palsies. TMS measures also have high sensitivity in detecting subclinical corticospinal lesions in multiple sclerosis. Abnormalities in central motor conduction time or TST correlate with motor impairment and disability in MS. Cerebellar stimulation may detect lesions in the cerebellum or cerebello-dentato-thalamo-motor cortical pathways. Combining TMS with electroencephalography, provides a novel method to measure parameters altered in neurological disorders, including cortical excitability, effective connectivity, and response complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023
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27. Cortical network modularity changes along the course of frontotemporal and Alzheimer's dementing diseases.

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Bonanni, Laura, Franciotti, Raffaella, Moretti, Davide, Benussi, Alberto, Ferri, Laura, Russo, Mirella, Carrarini, Claudia, Barbone, Filomena, Arnaldi, Dario, Falasca, Nicola, Koch, Giacomo, Cagnin, Annachiara, Nobili, Flavio, Babiloni, Claudio, Borroni, Barbara, Padovani, Alessandro, and Onofrj, Marco

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*ALZHEIMER'S disease, *CURRICULUM
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2021
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