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The Taxonomy of Subjective Cognitive Decline: Proposal and First Clinical Evidence from the Geneva Memory Clinic Cohort. 主观认知能力下降的分类法:日内瓦记忆诊所队列的建议和首个临床证据。
IF 1.9 4区 医学
Neurodegenerative Diseases Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.1159/000539053
Federica Ribaldi, Rafael Palomo, Daniele Altomare, Max Scheffler, Frederic Assal, Nicholas J Ashton, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Marc Abramowicz, Valentina Garibotto, Christian Chicherio, Giovanni B Frisoni
{"title":"The Taxonomy of Subjective Cognitive Decline: Proposal and First Clinical Evidence from the Geneva Memory Clinic Cohort.","authors":"Federica Ribaldi, Rafael Palomo, Daniele Altomare, Max Scheffler, Frederic Assal, Nicholas J Ashton, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Marc Abramowicz, Valentina Garibotto, Christian Chicherio, Giovanni B Frisoni","doi":"10.1159/000539053","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000539053","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is characterized by subjective cognitive concerns without objective cognitive impairment and is considered a risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia. However, most SCD patients will not develop neurodegenerative disorders, yet they may suffer from minor psychiatric, neurological, or somatic comorbidities. The aim of the present study was to provide a taxonomy of the heterogeneous SCD entity and to conduct a preliminary validation using data from a memory clinic sample.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were fifty-five SCD individuals consecutively recruited at the Geneva Memory Center. Based on clinical reports, they were classified into three clinically pre-defined subgroups: (i) those with psychological or psychiatric comorbidities (Psy), (ii) those with somatic comorbidities (SomCom), (iii) and those with no apparent cause (NAC). Baseline demographics, clinical, cognitive, and biomarker differences among the SCD subgroups were assessed. Longitudinal cognitive changes (average 3 years follow-up) were modeled using a linear mixed model.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Out of the 55 SCD cases, 16 were SomCom, 18 Psy, and 21 NAC. 47% were female, mean age was 71 years. We observed higher frequency of APOE ε4 carriers in NAC (53%) compared to SomCom (14%) and Psy (0%, p = 0.023) and lower level of plasma Aβ42 in NAC (6.8 ± 1.0) compared to SomCom (8.4 ± 1.1; p = 0.031). SomCom subjects were older (74 years) than Psy (67 years, p = 0.011), and had greater medial temporal lobe atrophy (1.0 ± 1.0) than Psy (0.2 ± 0.6) and NAC (0.4 ± 0.5, p = 0.005). SomCom has worse episodic memory performances (14.5 ± 3.5) than Psy (15.8 ± 0.4) and NAC (15.8 ± 0.7, p = 0.032). We observed a slightly steeper, yet not statistically significant, cognitive decline in NAC (β = -0.48) compared to Psy (β = -0.28) and SomCom (β = -0.24).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>NAC features a higher proportion of APOE ε4 carriers, lower plasma Aβ42 and a trend towards steeper cognitive decline than SomCom and Psy. Taken together, these findings suggest that NACs are at higher risk of cognitive decline due to AD. The proposed clinical taxonomy might be implemented in clinical practice to identify SCD at higher risk. However, such taxonomy should be tested on an independent cohort with a larger sample size.</p>","PeriodicalId":19115,"journal":{"name":"Neurodegenerative Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11448624/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141065915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A Decision-Making Algorithm for Remote Digital Assessments of Alzheimer's Disease. 阿尔茨海默病远程数字评估的决策算法。
IF 1.9 4区 医学
Neurodegenerative Diseases Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-04-30 DOI: 10.1159/000539129
Valeria Manera, Clair Vandersteen, Alexandra Plonka, Constance Lafontaine, Kevin Galery, Alexandre Derreumaux, Nouha Ben Gaied, Aurélie Mouton, Guillaume Sacco, Cyrille Launay, Olivier Guérin, Philippe Robert, Gilles Allali, Kim Sawchuk, Olivier Beauchet, Auriane Gros
{"title":"A Decision-Making Algorithm for Remote Digital Assessments of Alzheimer's Disease.","authors":"Valeria Manera, Clair Vandersteen, Alexandra Plonka, Constance Lafontaine, Kevin Galery, Alexandre Derreumaux, Nouha Ben Gaied, Aurélie Mouton, Guillaume Sacco, Cyrille Launay, Olivier Guérin, Philippe Robert, Gilles Allali, Kim Sawchuk, Olivier Beauchet, Auriane Gros","doi":"10.1159/000539129","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000539129","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Remote digital assessments (RDAs) such as voice recording, video and motor sensors, olfactory, hearing, and vision screenings are now starting to be employed to complement classical biomarker and clinical evidence to identify patients in the early AD stages. Choosing which RDA can be proposed to individual patients is not trivial and often time-consuming. This position paper presents a decision-making algorithm for using RDA during teleconsultations in memory clinic settings.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The algorithm was developed by an expert panel following the Delphi methodology.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The decision-making algorithm is structured as a series of yes-no questions. The resulting questionnaire is freely available online.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>We suggest that the use of screening questionnaires in the context of memory clinics may help accelerating the adoption of RDA in everyday clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":19115,"journal":{"name":"Neurodegenerative Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140863539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Baseline Depressive Symptoms as a Predictor of Incident Dementia in a Prospectively Followed Cohort of Elders with Essential Tremor. 基线抑郁症状是前瞻性随访队列中本质性震颤老人痴呆症发病的预测因素。
IF 1.9 4区 医学
Neurodegenerative Diseases Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1159/000540027
Diane S Berry, Ali Ghanem, Margaret M McGurn, Edward D Huey, Stephanie Cosentino, Elan D Louis
{"title":"Baseline Depressive Symptoms as a Predictor of Incident Dementia in a Prospectively Followed Cohort of Elders with Essential Tremor.","authors":"Diane S Berry, Ali Ghanem, Margaret M McGurn, Edward D Huey, Stephanie Cosentino, Elan D Louis","doi":"10.1159/000540027","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000540027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Essential tremor (ET) patients may exhibit a variety of non-motor features, including cognitive decline and depressive symptoms. Studies of several neurodegenerative diseases link depression to cognitive decline, suggesting depression is an early marker of dementia. We examined whether baseline depressive symptoms predict incident dementia in elders with ET.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Hundred and forty-one ET cases aged 70 years or older at baseline, enrolled in a prospective study of cognitive performance, took part in evaluations at baseline and at 18, 36, 54, and 72 months. Participants completed the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), a 30-item self-report measure of depressive symptoms, and a battery of neuropsychological tests and functional assessments, from which we derived cognitive diagnoses at each evaluation. Cox proportional hazards regression equations determined incident dementia risk based on participants' baseline depression scores.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Mean baseline age was 81.5 ± 6.7 years. Higher baseline GDS scores were associated with increased risk of dementia in an unadjusted model (hazards ratio [HR] = 1.11, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.02-1.20, p = 0.01) and after controlling for baseline age, education, number of medications, and tremor onset age (HR = 1.13, 95% CI = 1.02-1.25, p = 0.02).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Baseline depression scores predicted incident dementia in elders with ET. With each one-point increase in baseline depression score, there was a 13% increase in incident dementia risk. Given the published data that reported depression may be twice as high in elders with ET compared to controls, this association is particularly worrisome in the ET population.</p>","PeriodicalId":19115,"journal":{"name":"Neurodegenerative Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11460651/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141563849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Potential Correlation between Tea Intake and the Risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Mendelian Randomization Study. 茶叶摄入量与肌萎缩侧索硬化症风险之间的潜在相关性:孟德尔随机研究
IF 1.9 4区 医学
Neurodegenerative Diseases Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1159/000539590
Jinyue Li, Songyu Li, Guoqiang Fei
{"title":"Potential Correlation between Tea Intake and the Risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Mendelian Randomization Study.","authors":"Jinyue Li, Songyu Li, Guoqiang Fei","doi":"10.1159/000539590","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000539590","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>There were limited observation studies on the association between tea intake and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with inconsistent results. This study aimed to determine the potential relationship between tea intake and ALS by a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We identified 41 independent SNPs strongly associated with tea intake from 448,060 participants of European ancestry in the UK Biobank. Summary statistics associated with ALS were also obtained from the UK Biobank including 20,806 cases and 59,804 controls. The study used MR analysis to assess the potential effect of tea consumption on ALS, and several methods such as sensitivity analyses and MR-pleiotropy residual sum and outlier method were performed to further test the robustness of our findings.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The F statistic was more than 10 in each SNP, which meets the first assumption for the MR study. Using the inverse variance weighted MR analysis as the primary method, we found that a one standard deviation increase in tea consumption was associated with a 14% lower risk of ALS (OR = 0.86, 95% CI = 0.74-0.99, p &lt; 0.05). Sensitivity analyses detected no potential pleiotropy and directional heterogeneity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our MR study supported the potential relationship between tea intake and ALS risk, suggesting the potential advantages of tea intake for preventing ALS. Future clinical trials and research are needed to further validate the results and elucidate possible mechanisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":19115,"journal":{"name":"Neurodegenerative Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141237891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Contents Vol. 22, 2022 目录22, 2022
IF 3 4区 医学
Neurodegenerative Diseases Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1159/000534159
Gilles Allali, Roger M. Nitsch, Wenzhen Duan, S. T. DeKosky
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Lithium: An Old Drug for New Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia. 锂:阿尔茨海默病及相关痴呆的新治疗策略的老药。
IF 3 4区 医学
Neurodegenerative Diseases Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.1159/000533797
Seong Sool Shim, Ken Berglund, Shan Ping Yu
{"title":"Lithium: An Old Drug for New Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia.","authors":"Seong Sool Shim, Ken Berglund, Shan Ping Yu","doi":"10.1159/000533797","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000533797","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Although Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, the effective treatment of AD is not available currently. Multiple trials of drugs, which were developed based on the amyloid hypothesis of AD, have not been highly successful to improve cognitive and other symptoms in AD patients, suggesting that it is necessary to explore additional and alternative approaches for the disease-modifying treatment of AD. The diverse lines of evidence have revealed that lithium reduces amyloid and tau pathology, attenuates neuronal loss, enhances synaptic plasticity, and improves cognitive function. Clinical studies have shown that lithium reduces the risk of AD and deters the progress of mild cognitive impairment and early AD.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>Our recent study has revealed that lithium stabilizes disruptive calcium homeostasis, and subsequently, attenuates the downstream neuropathogenic processes of AD. Through these therapeutic actions, lithium produces therapeutic effects on AD with potential to modify the disease process. This review critically analyzed the preclinical and clinical studies for the therapeutic effects of lithium on AD. We suggest that disruptive calcium homeostasis is likely to be the early neuropathological mechanism of AD, and the stabilization of disruptive calcium homeostasis by lithium would be associated with its therapeutic effects on neuropathology and cognitive deficits in AD.</p><p><strong>Key messages: </strong>Lithium is likely to be efficacious for AD as a disease-modifying drug by acting on multiple neuropathological targets including disruptive calcium homeostasis.</p>","PeriodicalId":19115,"journal":{"name":"Neurodegenerative Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10154771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Predicting the Rapid Progression of Mild Cognitive Impairment by Intestinal Flora and Blood Indicators through Machine Learning Method. 通过机器学习方法,利用肠道菌群和血液指标预测轻度认知障碍的快速进展。
IF 3 4区 医学
Neurodegenerative Diseases Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1159/000538023
Lingling Wang, Jing Yan, Huiqin Liu, Xiaohui Zhao, Haihan Song, Juan Yang
{"title":"Predicting the Rapid Progression of Mild Cognitive Impairment by Intestinal Flora and Blood Indicators through Machine Learning Method.","authors":"Lingling Wang, Jing Yan, Huiqin Liu, Xiaohui Zhao, Haihan Song, Juan Yang","doi":"10.1159/000538023","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000538023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The aim of the work was to establish a prediction model of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) progression based on intestinal flora by machine learning method.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A total of 1,013 patients were recruited, in which 87 patients with MCI finished a two-year follow-up. To establish a prediction model, 61 patients were randomly divided into a training set and 26 patients were divided into a testing set. A total of 121 features including demographic characteristics, hematological indicators, and intestinal flora abundance were analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 87 patients who finished a two-year follow-up, 44 presented rapid progression. Model 1 was established based on 121 features with the accuracy 85%, sensitivity 85%, and specificity 83%. Model 2 was based on the first fifteen features of model 1 (triglyceride, uric acid, alanine transaminase, F-Clostridiaceae, G-Megamonas, S-Megamonas, G-Shigella, G-Shigella, S-Shigella, average hemoglobin concentration, G-Alistipes, S-Collinsella, median cell count, average hemoglobin volume, low-density lipoprotein), with the accuracy 97%, sensitivity 92%, and specificity 100%. Model 3 was based on the first ten features of model 1, with the accuracy 97%, sensitivity 86%, and specificity 100%. Other models based on the demographic characteristics, hematological indicators, or intestinal flora abundance features presented lower sensitivity and specificity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The 15 features (including intestinal flora abundance) could establish an effective model for predicting rapid MCI progression.</p>","PeriodicalId":19115,"journal":{"name":"Neurodegenerative Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139990706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A Paradigm Shift in the Management of Patients with Parkinson's Disease. 帕金森病患者管理模式的转变。
IF 3 4区 医学
Neurodegenerative Diseases Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1159/000533798
Konstantinos I Tsamis, Per Odin, Angelo Antonini, Heinz Reichmann, Spyridon Konitsiotis
{"title":"A Paradigm Shift in the Management of Patients with Parkinson's Disease.","authors":"Konstantinos I Tsamis, Per Odin, Angelo Antonini, Heinz Reichmann, Spyridon Konitsiotis","doi":"10.1159/000533798","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000533798","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Technological evolution leads to the constant enhancement of monitoring systems and recording symptoms of diverse disorders.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>For Parkinson's disease, wearable devices empowered with machine learning analysis are the main modules for objective measurements. Software and hardware improvements have led to the development of reliable systems that can detect symptoms accurately and be implicated in the follow-up and treatment decisions.</p><p><strong>Key messages: </strong>Among many different devices developed so far, the most promising ones are those that can record symptoms from all extremities and the trunk, in the home environment during the activities of daily living, assess gait impairment accurately, and be suitable for a long-term follow-up of the patients. Such wearable systems pave the way for a paradigm shift in the management of patients with Parkinson's disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":19115,"journal":{"name":"Neurodegenerative Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10659004/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71425415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cerebral Tau Deposition in Comorbid Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: An [18F]-Flortaucipir and 7T MRI Study. 共病进行性核上性麻痹和肌萎缩侧索硬化症的脑tau沉积:[18F]-flortaucipir和7T磁共振成像研究。
IF 1.9 4区 医学
Neurodegenerative Diseases Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-25 DOI: 10.1159/000536614
Ian Cheong, Yong Du, Gwenn Smith, Jun Hua, Xu Li, Alexander Pantelyat
{"title":"Cerebral Tau Deposition in Comorbid Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: An [18F]-Flortaucipir and 7T MRI Study.","authors":"Ian Cheong, Yong Du, Gwenn Smith, Jun Hua, Xu Li, Alexander Pantelyat","doi":"10.1159/000536614","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000536614","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a four-repeat tauopathy characterized by multiple clinicopathologic subtypes. Advanced neuroimaging techniques have shown an early ability to distinguish PSP subtypes noninvasively for improved diagnosis. This study utilized tau PET imaging and MRI techniques at 7T to determine the neuroimaging profile of a participant with comorbid PSP and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>[18F]-flortaucipir PET imaging was performed on one participant with PSP-ALS, one participant with typical PSP (Richardson's syndrome; PSP-RS), and 15 healthy control volunteers. Standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) in each brain region was compared between PSP participants and controls. Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) and inflow-based vascular-space occupancy MRI at 7T were performed on the two PSP participants and on two age-matched healthy controls to evaluate for differences in regional brain iron content and arteriolar cerebral blood volume (CBVa), respectively.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the participant with PSP-ALS, the precentral gyrus demonstrated the highest [18F]-flortaucipir uptake of all brain regions relative to controls (z-score 1.94). In the participant with PSP-RS, [18F]-flortaucipir uptake relative to controls was highest in subcortical regions, including the pallidum, thalamus, hippocampus, and brainstem (z-scores 1.08, 1.41, 1.49, 1.32, respectively). Susceptibility values as a measure of brain iron content were higher in the globus pallidus and substantia nigra than in the midbrain and pons in each participant, regardless of group. CBVa values tended to be higher in the subcortical gray matter in PSP participants than in controls, although large measurement variability was noted in controls across multiple regions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In vivo tau PET imaging of an individual with PSP-ALS overlap demonstrated increased tau burden in the motor cortex that was not observed in PSP-RS or control participants. Consistent with prior PET studies, tau burden in PSP-RS was mainly observed in subcortical regions, including the brainstem and basal ganglia. QSM data suggest that off-target binding to iron may account for some but not all of the increased [18F]-flortaucipir uptake in the basal ganglia in PSP-RS. These findings support existing evidence that tau PET imaging can distinguish among PSP subtypes by detecting distinct regional patterns of tau deposition in the brain. Larger studies are needed to determine whether CBVa is sensitive to changes in brain microvasculature in PSP.</p>","PeriodicalId":19115,"journal":{"name":"Neurodegenerative Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11132917/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140288635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Epidemiological Impact of Neurodegenerative Diseases in the Rural Spanish-Portuguese Cross-Border Region. 神经退行性疾病对西班牙-葡萄牙跨境农村地区的流行病学影响。
IF 3 4区 医学
Neurodegenerative Diseases Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1159/000535683
Montserrat Alonso-Sardón, Manuel Paulino, Adília Fernandes, María Antonia Martín-Delgado, Raixa Noemí Pérez-Martín, Carlos Pires Magalhães, Helena Pimentel, Augusta Mata, Justina Silvano, Agostinha Corte, Teresa Paiva, Ermelinda Marques
{"title":"Epidemiological Impact of Neurodegenerative Diseases in the Rural Spanish-Portuguese Cross-Border Region.","authors":"Montserrat Alonso-Sardón, Manuel Paulino, Adília Fernandes, María Antonia Martín-Delgado, Raixa Noemí Pérez-Martín, Carlos Pires Magalhães, Helena Pimentel, Augusta Mata, Justina Silvano, Agostinha Corte, Teresa Paiva, Ermelinda Marques","doi":"10.1159/000535683","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000535683","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Epidemiological data indicate that neurodegenerative diseases show a high prevalence with a progressive increasing trend, especially in aging populations, as is the case in rural areas. The objective of this study was to assess the quantitative impact of neurodegenerative diseases in rural areas of the Spanish-Portuguese border region and to describe the epidemiological profile of the most prevalent disorders in one of the most depopulated and aged regions of Europe.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional descriptive study was designed to estimate the prevalence of subjects diagnosed with the most common neurodegenerative disorders: dementia (Alzheimer's disease and other dementias), Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonism, and multiple sclerosis in the Spanish-Portuguese cross-border border region in 2020. It includes Bragança and Guarda Districts (Portugal) and Salamanca (Castilla y León, Spain).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Neurodegenerative diseases accounted for 1.85% in the Spanish-Portuguese cross-border region in 2020; a total of 5,819 records were reported: 987 (prevalence, 2.51%) in Salamanca (Spain); 2,332 (prevalence, 1.87%) in Bragança; and 2,500 (prevalence, 1.66%) in Guarda. Female population suffered from them in higher proportion (2.35 vs. 1.32%). Dementia represented 1.19% (3,744), Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonism 0.58% (1,823), and multiple sclerosis 0.08% (252). These disorders impacted older age groups. In the rural border region of Spain, 1 out of 4 cases were institutionalized.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings reveal the health impact of neurodegenerative diseases in the Spanish-Portuguese cross-border region. The epidemiological data emphasize the region's circumstances and highlight research priorities. Intervention strategies must be implemented in the region to ensure quality healthcare in rural areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":19115,"journal":{"name":"Neurodegenerative Diseases","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138830740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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