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Head size may modify the impact of white matter lesions on dementia.

Neurobiol Aging. 2011 Mar 17; PubMed: 21420196

PAPER Naert G, Rivest S

The role of microglial cell subsets in Alzheimer's disease.

Curr Alzheimer Res. 2011 Mar;8(2):151-5. PubMed: 21418002

PAPER Jellinger KA

Cerebral correlates of psychotic syndromes in neurodegenerative diseases.

J Cell Mol Med. 2011 Mar 21; PubMed: 21418522

PAPER Buiza C, Navarro A, Díaz-Orueta U, González MF, Alaba J, Arriola E, Hernández C, Zulaica A, Yanguas JJ

[Short evaluation of cognitive state in advanced stages of dementia: preliminary results of the Spanish validation of the Severe Mini-Mental State Examination].

Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol. 2011 May-Jun;46(3):131-8. PubMed: 21420199

PAPER Jin M, Shepardson N, Yang T, Chen G, Walsh D, Selkoe DJ

Soluble amyloid beta-protein dimers isolated from Alzheimer cortex directly induce Tau hyperphosphorylation and neuritic degeneration.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Apr 5;108(14):5819-24. PubMed: 21421841

PAPER Gupta VB, Laws SM, Villemagne VL, Ames D, Bush AI, Ellis KA, Lui JK, Masters C, Rowe CC, Szoeke C, Taddei K, Martins RN,

Plasma apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer disease risk: the AIBL study of aging.

Neurology. 2011 Mar 22;76(12):1091-8. PubMed: 21422459

PAPER Wharton SB, Brayne C, Savva GM, Matthews FE, Forster G, Simpson J, Lace G, Ince PG,

Epidemiological neuropathology: the MRC Cognitive Function and Aging Study experience.

J Alzheimers Dis. 2011;25(2):359-72. PubMed: 21422529

PAPER De Reuck J, Auger F, Cordonnier C, Deramecourt V, Durieux N, Pasquier F, Bordet R, Maurage CA, Leys D

Comparison of 7.0-T T₂*-magnetic resonance imaging of cerebral bleeds in post-mortem brain sections of Alzheimer patients with their neuropathological correlates.

Cerebrovasc Dis. 2011;31(5):511-7. PubMed: 21422755

PAPER Duara R, Loewenstein DA, Greig MT, Potter E, Barker W, Raj A, Schinka J, Borenstein A, Schoenberg M, Wu Y, Banko J, Potter H

Pre-MCI and MCI: neuropsychological, clinical, and imaging features and progression rates.

Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2011 Nov;19(11):951-60. PubMed: 21422909

PAPER Vaccarino L, Forte GI, Palmeri M, Misiano G, Porcellini E, Chiappelli M, Scola L, Caruso C, Licastro F, Lio D

Role of prothrombotic polymorphisms in successful or unsuccessful aging.

Biogerontology. 2011 Oct;12(5):445-50. PubMed: 21424155

PAPER Plassman BL, Langa KM, McCammon RJ, Fisher GG, Potter GG, Burke JR, Steffens DC, Foster NL, Giordani B, Unverzagt FW, Welsh-Bohmer KA, Heeringa SG, Weir DR, Wallace RB

Incidence of dementia and cognitive impairment, not dementia in the United States.

Ann Neurol. 2011 Sep;70(3):418-26. PubMed: 21425187

Seiichi Haga

Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
Tokyo, Japan

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Smoking increases later risk of dementia. A large study provides one more reason to kick the habit.

Genesis. 2011 Jun;49(6):424-40. PubMed: 21404472

Tasneem Khanam on Cytoplasmic intron sequence-retaining transcripts can be dendritically targeted via ID element retrotransposons.

COMMENT This article in Neuron published by Buckley et al. describes findings in explanted and cultured neurons (ex vivo) that intron-retained, repetitive sequences, so-called identifier elements (ID elements), confer dendritic targeting competence to neuronal tr

PAPER Brosius J

Retroposons--seeds of evolution.

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