Abstract

This Project will compare healthy aging and senile dementia of the Alzheimer type in a sample aged 80 and older with respect to longitudinal clinical and psychometric performance and neuropathologic data postmortem. Guidelines for the separation of Alzheimer and nonAlzheimer brains on the basis of quantitative neuropathologic markers in the very old will be developed. The extent of overlap in the brains of demented and nondemented very old persons will be examined. In the process we will extend our knowledge about clinical and psychometric performance in a nondemented sample of persons aged 80 and older. We will have studied approximately 400 very old subjects during life and expect to have at least 125 autopsies from this sample at the completion of this proposed Project. About one-third of the brains are expected to come from the nondemented and mildly/very mildly demented (SDAT) and two-thirds from the more severely demented very old subjects.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
3P01AG003991-18S2
Application #
6500964
Study Section
Project Start
2001-09-30
Project End
2001-12-31
Budget Start
Budget End
Support Year
18
Fiscal Year
2001
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Washington University
Department
Type
DUNS #
062761671
City
Saint Louis
State
MO
Country
United States
Zip Code
63130

  Publications

Liao, Fan; Li, Aimin; Xiong, Monica et al. (2018) Targeting of nonlipidated, aggregated apoE with antibodies inhibits amyloid accumulation. J Clin Invest 128:2144-2155
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Yan, Qi; Nho, Kwangsik; Del-Aguila, Jorge L et al. (2018) Genome-wide association study of brain amyloid deposition as measured by Pittsburgh Compound-B (PiB)-PET imaging. Mol Psychiatry :
Islam, Jyoti; Zhang, Yanqing (2018) Brain MRI analysis for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis using an ensemble system of deep convolutional neural networks. Brain Inform 5:2
Strain, Jeremy F; Smith, Robert X; Beaumont, Helen et al. (2018) Loss of white matter integrity reflects tau accumulation in Alzheimer disease defined regions. Neurology 91:e313-e318
Roe, Catherine M; Ances, Beau M; Head, Denise et al. (2018) Incident cognitive impairment: longitudinal changes in molecular, structural and cognitive biomarkers. Brain 141:3233-3248
Ogren, Jennifer A; Tripathi, Raghav; Macey, Paul M et al. (2018) Regional cortical thickness changes accompanying generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Neuroimage Clin 20:205-215
Ihara, Ryoko; Vincent, Benjamin D; Baxter, Michael R et al. (2018) Relative neuron loss in hippocampal sclerosis of aging and Alzheimer's disease. Ann Neurol 84:741-753
Deming, Yuetiva; Dumitrescu, Logan; Barnes, Lisa L et al. (2018) Sex-specific genetic predictors of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers. Acta Neuropathol 136:857-872
Sutphen, Courtney L; McCue, Lena; Herries, Elizabeth M et al. (2018) Longitudinal decreases in multiple cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of neuronal injury in symptomatic late onset Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement 14:869-879

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