Abstract

The overall long term goal of this Imaging Core is to identify structural, perfusion, and metabolic changes in the brain that predict future cognitive decline and conversion to dementia. The overall approach will be to initially study healthy elders ands age/gender matched patients with well-characterized dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal dementia using a newly acquired 4 Tesla BrukedSiemens MRI/MRS scanner, which will be optimized for investigation of neurodegenerative disease. These initial studies will provide imaging characteristics of established dementia. We will also study a group of subjects with MCI-Peterson criteria. In subsequent years we will study increasing numbers of subjects with MCI subtypes and MCI-Peterson who likely represent early stages of AD and FTD and who are expected to ultimately convert to dementia. All subjects will be recruited and evaluated by the Clinical Core.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Specialized Center (P50)
Project #
5P50AG023501-05
Application #
7596939
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZAG1)
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2008-04-01
Budget End
2009-03-31
Support Year
5
Fiscal Year
2008
Total Cost
$180,512
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of California San Francisco
Department
Type
DUNS #
094878337
City
San Francisco
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
94143

  Publications

Bettcher, Brianne M; Johnson, Sterling C; Fitch, Ryan et al. (2018) Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma Levels of Inflammation Differentially Relate to CNS Markers of Alzheimer's Disease Pathology and Neuronal Damage. J Alzheimers Dis 62:385-397
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Wang, Chengzhong; Najm, Ramsey; Xu, Qin et al. (2018) Gain of toxic apolipoprotein E4 effects in human iPSC-derived neurons is ameliorated by a small-molecule structure corrector. Nat Med 24:647-657
Kaur, Antarpreet; Edland, Steven D; Peavy, Guerry M (2018) The MoCA-Memory Index Score: An Efficient Alternative to Paragraph Recall for the Detection of Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 32:120-124
Kim, Eun-Joo; Brown, Jesse A; Deng, Jersey et al. (2018) Mixed TDP-43 proteinopathy and tauopathy in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: nine case series. J Neurol 265:2960-2971
Eser, Rana A; Ehrenberg, Alexander J; Petersen, Cathrine et al. (2018) Selective Vulnerability of Brainstem Nuclei in Distinct Tauopathies: A Postmortem Study. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 77:149-161
Brenowitz, Willa D; Han, Fang; Kukull, Walter A et al. (2018) Treated hypothyroidism is associated with cerebrovascular disease but not Alzheimer's disease pathology in older adults. Neurobiol Aging 62:64-71
Wang, Qi; Guo, Lei; Thompson, Paul M et al. (2018) The Added Value of Diffusion-Weighted MRI-Derived Structural Connectome in Evaluating Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Multi-Cohort Validation1. J Alzheimers Dis 64:149-169
Rojas, Julio C; Bang, Jee; Lobach, Iryna V et al. (2018) CSF neurofilament light chain and phosphorylated tau 181 predict disease progression in PSP. Neurology 90:e273-e281
Theofilas, Panos; Ehrenberg, Alexander J; Nguy, Austin et al. (2018) Probing the correlation of neuronal loss, neurofibrillary tangles, and cell death markers across the Alzheimer's disease Braak stages: a quantitative study in humans. Neurobiol Aging 61:1-12

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