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Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature
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Clinicopathologic correlation studies are critically important for the field of Alzheimer disease (AD) research. Studies on human subjects with autopsy confirmation entail numerous potential biases that affect both their general applicability and the validity of the correlations. Many sources of data variability can weaken the apparent correlation between cognitive status and AD neuropathologic changes. Indeed, most persons in advanced old age have significant non-AD brain lesions that may alter cognition independently of AD. Worldwide research efforts have evaluated thousands of human subjects to assess the causes of cognitive impairment in the elderly, and these studies have been interpreted in different ways. We review the literature focusing on the correlation of AD neuropathologic changes (i.e. β-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles) with cognitive impairment. We discuss the various patterns of brain changes that have been observed in elderly individuals to provide a perspective for understanding AD clinicopathologic correlation and conclude that evidence from many independent research centers strongly supports the existence of a specific disease, as defined by the presence of Aβ plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Although Aβ plaques may play a key role in AD pathogenesis, the severity of cognitive impairment correlates best with the burden of neocortical neurofibrillary tangles.
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This review synthesizes clinicopathologic correlation literature on Alzheimer disease (AD) and concludes that AD neuropathologic changes—Aβ plaques and neurofibrillary tangles—are strongly linked to cognitive impairment, with neocortical neurofibrillary tangle burden correlating best with severity. It argues that Aβ plaques alone are not sufficient for advanced AD dementia and that concomitant non-AD pathologies often weaken apparent correlations.
Key findings
- Evidence from many independent research centers supports AD as a specific disease defined by Aβ plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, but the severity of cognitive impairment correlates best with the burden of neocortical neurofibrillary tangles.
- Aβ plaques alone do not seem sufficient for advanced clinical AD dementia; neuritic plaques correlate with antemortem cognitive impairment better than diffuse Aβ plaques, and neocortical NFTs correlate more strongly than allocortical or subcortical NFTs.
- In a review of 11 studies comprising 555 subjects without dementia, 12 brains were Braak stage V (2.2%) and 3 were Braak stage VI (0.5%); among thousands of cases, there was no report of a thoroughly documented individual with truly “end-stage” neocortical NFT pathology who lacked antemortem cognitive impairment proximal to death.
- Concomitant pathologies are common and contribute noise: 75% to 90% of patients older than 90 years have some degree of cerebrovascular disease pathology, and hippocampal sclerosis affects up to 20% of individuals in advanced age and correlates with cognitive impairment independently of AD.
Methods
- Design: narrative literature review of clinicopathologic correlation (CPC) studies on AD neuropathologic changes and cognitive status, written from the perspective of neuropathologists and clinicians.
- Data/sample: human autopsy CPC studies, including more than 40 studies assessing Aβ plaques and numerous studies assessing NFTs; highlighted large autopsy series from at least 18 different research centers, with inclusion criteria of more than 40 patients, neuropathologic assessment of both NFTs and AβPs in cerebral neocortex, broad pathologic severity, and nondichotomous correlation with cognitive status.
- Main analysis: qualitative synthesis of study findings, discussion of sources of bias and variability, and comparison of correlations between Aβ plaques, neuritic plaques, NFTs, and antemortem cognitive impairment; no pooled meta-analysis is reported.
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- The paper states that CPC studies face numerous potential biases: autopsy selection bias, nonrandom clinic- or hospital-based samples, concentration on middle- and upper-income whites in advantaged countries, imperfect and evolving clinical and pathologic assessments, variable time between final clinical evaluation and autopsy, competing mortality risks, and high prevalence of concurrent diseases.
- The paper states that autopsy provides only cross-sectional data and cannot prove molecular mechanisms; pathologic assessments identify deviations from “normal” but do not prove that plaques or tangles are proximate to the ultimate neurotoxic species.
- The text makes evident that this is a narrative review rather than a systematic review or meta-analysis, and its highlighted large-series table uses selective inclusion criteria; the authors also note that not all AD cases fall within the same spatial continuum of NFT distributions and that Braak staging masks variability in lesion density within a given stage.
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“In fact, there have been hints of some beneficial effects (clinical and biochemical) linked to human anti-Aβ immunotherapies (74-79).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CONTROVERSIES IN AD CPC RESEARCH
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“On the other hand, the density of tau-positive NPs does correlate directly and statistically independently with some degree of cognitive impairment (105-107) (Fig. 2).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > “Plaque-Only” Dementia
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“We are aware of no reported case of truly intact cognition despite extremely severe AD pathologic changes (i.e. widespread neocortical NFTs) measured with quantitative pathologic analysis, although many persons with intact cognition have been assessed in autopsy series (33, 42, 54, 133, 142, 148, 151-166).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > AβPs and NFTs But No Dementia
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“Even in extreme old age, the presence of many neocortical NFTs correlates with antemortem cognitive decline (105, 188-191).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > AD-Related Brain Pathology in Individuals Older Than 90 Years
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“Although the study designs were diverse in CPC studies involving AβPs, most studies confirm a significant correlation between antemortem cognitive impairment and neocortical AβPs, as demonstrated by Blessed et al (254) (Fig. 3).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Correlation Between AβPs and Cognitive Status
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“A recent study with large numbers of subjects assessed with standardized antemortem cognitive testing found that the amyloid stage that has progressed to involve the striatum is highly predictive of dementia (263).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Correlation Between AβPs and Cognitive Status
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- Not checked yetcites [263] Beach, 2012, Striatal amyloid plaque density predicts braak neurofibrillary stage and clinicopathological Alzheimer's disease: Implications for amyloid imaging, J Alzheimers Dis source
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“Subsequent studies have established that the densities of NPs correlate with antemortem cognitive impairment better than the densities of diffuse AβPs (45, 98, 106, 154, 189, 261).”
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“Duyckaerts et al (287) and Sabbagh et al (252) independently arrived at the conclusion that the density of NFTs in selected cerebral cortical fields significantly (p < 0.01) correlated with Blessed or Mini-Mental State Examination scores (297).”
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“At 40 years, all individuals studied by Braak and Del Tredici (39) and Braak et al (44) exhibited at least initial neurofibrillary pathology in the brainstem (Fig. 5).”
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“Similar results were obtained by Bennett et al (264) who found a strong correlation between global cognitive status and densities of neocortical tau-positive tangles.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Correlation Between NFTs and Cognitive Status
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“The findings reported by Tomlinson et al (38) in 1970 have been replicated many times: “[NFTs are] found in both controls and dements [demented subjects] in the hippocampus, but elsewhere in the cortex was only severe or widespread in the dements; severe generalized neurofibrillary change in the cortex was not seen in any control; it seems possible that its occurrence always indicates dementia.””
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > AβPS AND NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES: THE HISTOPATHOLOGIC HALLMARKS LINKED TO AD
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“There were 58 subjects with dementia and AD changes, of which 40 had 2 or more neocortical tangles per high-magnification field in frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes; 18 had no neocortical NFTs.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > “Plaque-Only” Dementia
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“The cases did not differ in hippocampal tangle densities and had no significant differences in brain weights, neocortical thickness, or neocortical neuron counts.”
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“There have been cases in which individuals with mid- to late-stage clinical AD were administered anti-Aβ immunotherapy that partially cleared AβPs, but this clearance did not seem to mitigate NFT formation or the inexorable disease course (69-71).”
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“Despite this, both groups were demented and did not differ significantly on the Blessed Dementia Scale.”
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“Using data from the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center with inclusion and exclusion criteria, as described previously (282), NPs and NFTs tend to coexist (Table 4); this corroborates earlier observations (283).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Neuritic AβP (NP): A Pathologic Entity With Mechanistic Implications
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“In sum, both clinical and pathologic assessments are imperfect, variably applied, and constantly evolving.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > OVERVIEW OF CHALLENGES TO CPC STUDIES IN AD
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“Although Aβ plaques may play a key role in AD pathogenesis, the severity of cognitive impairment correlates best with the burden of neocortical neurofibrillary tangles.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > Abstract
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“Studies on human subjects with autopsy confirmation entail numerous potential biases that affect both their general applicability and the validity of the correlations.”
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“Additional changes that may also occur in the brains of AD patients include amyloid angiopathy, age-related brain atrophy, synaptic pathology, white matter rarefaction, granulovacuolar degeneration, neuron loss, TDP-43 proteinopathy, and neuroinflammation (20-26), which may contribute to cognitive impairment; however, these are not considered pathognomonic features of AD (3).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > AβPS AND NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES: THE HISTOPATHOLOGIC HALLMARKS LINKED TO AD
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- Not checked yetcites [22] Masliah, 1995, Mechanisms of synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease, Histol Histopathol
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“The tendency to dichotomize the disease (i.e. “demented vs nondemented”) and overreliance on ordinal variables may also obscure important relationships.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > OVERVIEW OF CHALLENGES TO CPC STUDIES IN AD
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“Furthermore, CPC studies rarely are a random sample of the population and clinic- and hospital-based CPCs are subject to other potential biases.”
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“As such, neurofibrillary degeneration restricted to subcortical sites is often subclinical, whereas widespread neocortical NFTs are almost always associated with severe cognitive impairment in more than 1 disease state.”
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“On the other hand, tau gene mutations can produce clinical dementia with NFTs; this indicates that, under some conditions, NFTs may be directly linked to the primary or at least proximal neurodegenerative changes (29, 31, 37).”
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“Neurofibrillary tangles are not specific for AD (29-32); indeed, they are found in almost every class of brain disease and are universal (yet topographically restricted) in normal aging subjects (33).”
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- Not checked yetcites [30] Arai, 2001, Distinct isoforms of tau aggregated in neurons and glial cells in brains of patients with Pick's disease, cor-ticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy, Acta Neu-ropathol source
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“This subset of AβPs is a hallmark of the current diagnostic criteria for AD, although there is no universally accepted definition of a NP.”
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“The concordance of genetics and Aβ deposition is aligned with CPC studies that indicate that AβPs may be a temporally “upstream” feature of the neocortical disease, with the caveats that brainstem and medial temporal lobe pretangles and NFTs are seen in subjects without Aβ deposition in all age categories (33, 39, 44).”
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“In contrast to NFTs, AβPs are extracellular (45, 46) and are found in a high proportion of all elderly persons but are not universal (44, 47, 48).”
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“Both the density and the neuroanatomic localization of NFTs are important parameters in AD neuropathology.”
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“It must be acknowledged that a simplistic conceptualization of “plaques and tangles” does not adequately reflect the complexity of the biochemical changes in the brains of patients with AD.”
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“It is clear, as mentioned previously, that AβPs, in the absence of any other neurodegenerative disease lesions or other pathologies, are not a sufficient substrate for severe dementia and thus do not constitute “advanced AD pathologic changes.””
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“There are multiple reasons why these trials may have failed, including the late timing of the therapy. Thus, conclusions drawn from these trials may be premature (72, 73).”
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“As for Assertion 2, it is true that dementia, even one that may be clinically similar to probable AD, may be present without AD pathologic changes; this is simply not AD, but presumably one among many other diseases that cause dementia (e.g. hippocampal sclerosis or vascular dementia).”
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“These patterns of brain changes indicate specific features that can be correlated with clinical parameters, modeled to understand disease mechanisms, and targeted for therapeutics.”
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“Because autopsies provide only cross-sectional data, they cannot prove mechanism.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CONTROVERSIES IN AD CPC RESEARCH
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“Thus, AβPs and NFTs are the hallmark features of AD but do not develop in the human brain according to the same temporal or anatomic pattern (60, 61).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > AβPS AND NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES: THE HISTOPATHOLOGIC HALLMARKS LINKED TO AD
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“Thus, peptides and higher-order aggregates derived from products of APP and MAPT genes can potentially lead to combinations of neuroprotective and toxic attributes.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CONTROVERSIES IN AD CPC RESEARCH
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“In contrast, dense and extensive neocortical NFTs are very consistently associated with dementia and thus, according to new diagnostic criteria, these are required to constitute high burden of AD neuropathologic change (3).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CONTROVERSIES IN AD CPC RESEARCH
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- Not checked yetcites [3] source
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“The toxicity of oligomeric forms of tau and Aβ peptides could be connected with biochemical changes that also produce NPs and NFTs; thus, the oligomeric species may be directly related to the neuropathology, although they are not exactly correlated (90-95).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CONTROVERSIES IN AD CPC RESEARCH
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- Not checked yetcites [90] source
- Not checked yetcites [91] Jin, 2011, Soluble amyloid {β}-protein dimers isolated from Alzheimer cortex directly induce Tau hyperphosphorylation and neuritic degeneration, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A source
- Not checked yetcites [92] Gadad, 2011, Targeting oligomers in neurodegenerative disorders: lessons from alpha-synuclein, tau, and amyloid-β peptide, J Alzheimers Dis source
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- Not checked yetcites [95] source
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“Since both tau phosphorylation and Aβ peptide generation are seen in “normal” brains, some contend that there are probably beneficial and adaptive aspects to these molecular processes.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CONTROVERSIES IN AD CPC RESEARCH
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“When modern pathologic methods are used, severe cognitive impairment associated only with diffuse AβPs in the brain at autopsy is rare and has an unknown relationship to AD.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > “Plaque-Only” Dementia
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“The median life expectancy in Western countries is approximately 79 years (141).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > AβPs and NFTs But No Dementia
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- Not checked yetcites [141] Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 2008
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“There are also some individuals with intact or subtly diminished cognitive abilities whose brains harbor hippocampal and/or amygdala NFTs (Braak stages III–IV) with few or no AβPs; these represent approximately 5% of cases in some large autopsy series (41).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > “Tangle-Only” or “Tangle-Predominant” Dementia and Other Non-AD Tauopathies
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- Not checked yetcites [41] source
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“Subtle cognitive impairment may be associated with diffuse AβPs, indicating that these lesions may play a direct role in incipient AD (54), although a direct role of diffuse Aβ plaques without tau pathology has not been proven.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > “Plaque-Only” Dementia
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- Not checked yetcites [54] source
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“Furthermore, diffuse AβPs may be associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy, which could produce impairments separately (103, 104), although see Nelson et al (105).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > “Plaque-Only” Dementia
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“The current revision of the National Institute on Aging–Alzheimer’s Association guidelines for the neuropathologic assessment of AD stipulate that subjects with moderately dense neuritic AβPs may be regarded as having an intermediate level of AD neuropathologic change and that other potential contributors to cognitive impairment and dementia should be sought (3).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > “Plaque-Only” Dementia
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- Not checked yetcites [3] source
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“Indeed, this is precisely the observation reported by one of the largest autopsy series to date (142) and is well supported by AD biomarker studies (143-145).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > AβPs and NFTs But No Dementia
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“Thus, using these data, we can deduce confidently that an “average” person dying at age 79 has an approximately 15% likelihood of having been diagnosed clinically with ADD, but an approximately 30% to 40% chance of harboring significant AD neuropathologic changes (otherwise, the prevalence of ADD could not reach approximately 30%–40% by age 95).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > AβPs and NFTs But No Dementia
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“In this condition, the NFTs comprise tau isoforms similar to those of classic AD, but these subjects do not have the same distribution of APOE genotypes as subjects with AD (118).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > “Tangle-Only” or “Tangle-Predominant” Dementia and Other Non-AD Tauopathies
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- Not checked yetcites [118] source
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“In most community-based autopsy series, non-AD tauopathies constitute approximately 1% of dementia cases (108-115) (but see Noda et al [116]).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > “Tangle-Only” or “Tangle-Predominant” Dementia and Other Non-AD Tauopathies
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- Not checked yetcites [108] source
- Not checked yetcites [109] source
- Not checked yetcites [110] source
- Not checked yetcites [111] Schneider, 2009, The neuropathology of older persons with and without dementia from community versus clinic cohorts, J Alzheimers Dis source
- Not checked yetcites [112] source
- Not checked yetcites [113] source
- Not checked yetcites [114] source
- Not checked yetcites [115] source
- Not checked yetcites [116] source
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“The prevalence of dementia due to AD, as judged by clinicians, doubles every half-decade after age 65; thus, approximately 30% to 40% of living 95-year-old patients receive the diagnosis of ADD (126-128).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > AβPs and NFTs But No Dementia
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- Not checked yetcites [126] source
- Not checked yetcites [127] Aronson, 1991, Dementia, Age-dependent incidence, prevalence, and mortality in the old old. Arch Intern Med
- Not checked yetcites [128] Katzman R Kawas C . The epidemiology of dementia and Alzheimer disease. In: Terry RD , ed. Alzheimer Disease. New York, NY: Raven Press, Ltd, 1994:105–22
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“A notable example of this is schizophrenia, which, in elderly patients, is associated with dementia, although the underlying basis of this dementia is enigmatic (174-176).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > Dementia Cases Lacking AβPs, NFTs, or Other Pathologic Substrates
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“Cerebrovascular disease (CVD) is the most prevalent non-AD pathologic diagnosis in the brains of the advanced aged and is directly relevant to any CPC study related to dementia.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > AD-Related Brain Pathology in Individuals Older Than 90 Years
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“It is expected that many persons die with brains that exhibit AD neuropathologic change in the preclinical phase of AD; indeed, data support the modeled expectations (44, 142).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > AβPs and NFTs But No Dementia
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“Normal pressure hydrocephalus is another poorly understood cause of dementia that may lack AD pathologic changes (177, 178).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > Dementia Cases Lacking AβPs, NFTs, or Other Pathologic Substrates
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- Not checked yetcites [177] Leinonen V Koivisto AM Savolainen S . Post-mortem findings in 10 patients with presumed normal pressure hydrocephalus and review of the literature. [published online ahead of print February 10, 2012] Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol
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“However, not all studies are in agreement on this point (185, 186); these “survivors” represent a small fraction of the human population with underrepresentation of APOE ε4 allele (187).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > AD-Related Brain Pathology in Individuals Older Than 90 Years
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- Not checked yetcites [187] source
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“In the same way, AβPs may be a key pathologic factor in AD without equating with the clinical features of ADD.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Correlation Between AβPs and Cognitive Status
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“Owing in part to the scarcity of neocortical NFTs in the absence of AβPs, and the relatively modest apparent direct impact of AβPs on cognition, it has been suggested that the pathogenetic effect of AβP-related substances may be mediated by “seeding” neurofibrillary pathology (46, 88, 189, 264, 265).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Correlation Between AβPs and Cognitive Status
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“For this reason, the number of AβPs might plateau (or at least the rate of increase flatten out), leading to a “ceiling effect” relatively early in disease process that confounds linear correlations between plaque number and severity of cognitive change (253).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Correlation Between AβPs and Cognitive Status
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- Not checked yetcites [253] source
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“Nevertheless, the profound impact of CVD on studies pertinent to cognition in the elderly seems to be underappreciated in dementia research (208-210).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > LESS-PREVALENT PATTERNS OF CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FEATURES FOUND IN HUMAN BRAINS > AD-Related Brain Pathology in Individuals Older Than 90 Years
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“In more advanced disease, the neuroanatomic distribution of NFTs correlates both with the location at which neurons die (302-305) and with the cognitive domains affected in patients with ADD.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Correlation Between NFTs and Cognitive Status
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“As AD progresses, the NFTs become numerous in locus coeruleus which may suggest the same pathogenetic process is becoming more severe (301).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Correlation Between NFTs and Cognitive Status
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- Not checked yetcites [301] source
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“The abnormal NP-contacting dendrites and axons contain pathologic tau fibrils identical to those seen in NFTs (244, 273), with loss of adjacent synapses (274, 275).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Neuritic AβP (NP): A Pathologic Entity With Mechanistic Implications
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“Dystrophic axons from completely different afferent sources, expressing distinct neurotransmitters, have been shown to be present in particular NPs (276, 277), which strongly implies that toxicity is directed from the (extracellular) plaque to the radially arranged intracellular neurites.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Neuritic AβP (NP): A Pathologic Entity With Mechanistic Implications
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“This process may be synergistic or identical to the stimuli that could promote NFTs in human brains.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Neuritic AβP (NP): A Pathologic Entity With Mechanistic Implications
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“Thus, some evidence exists for NFT “turnover,” neuronal shrinkage, and/or non-NFT cell death mechanism(s).”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION IN AD > Correlation Between NFTs and Cognitive Status
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“Concomitant pathologies are very common in aging brains.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
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“A patient lacking AD pathologic diagnosis at autopsy, despite “biomarker positivity,” is not an AD case and suggests the biomarker has imperfect specificity.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > EVOLVING CONCEPTS AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
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“Neuritic plaques combine extracellular Aβ deposition and intracellular neurofibrillary (tau protein) pathology.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
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“Indeed, there are still also no recognized biomarker-based criterion standards for a large number of other neurodegenerative tauopathies, synucleinopathies, and vascular brain changes.”
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > EVOLVING CONCEPTS AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
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“Pathologic assessments cannot prove molecular mechanisms; instead, they identify and describe deviations from what is recognized as “normal.””
§ Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature > EVOLVING CONCEPTS AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
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“Because cognitive impairment in aging may be attributed to many different conditions other than AD, current biomarkers for AD are limited to predicting which patients may become cognitively impaired with neocortical AβPs and NFTs, rather than just predicting cognitive impairment alone.”
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“However, until such a method becomes available, neuropathologic examination remains the criterion standard for disease definition.”
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“For example, hippocampal atrophy is visualized on magnetic resonance imaging in both AD and hippocampal sclerosis patients and is therefore not a distinct AD biomarker.”
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“This is an important consideration because up to 20% of individuals in advanced age are affected by hippocampal sclerosis that correlates with cognitive impairment independently of AD pathologic diagnosis (105, 211, 321-323).”
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“Although the density of neocortical NFTs and neuritic AβPs on autopsy correlate with the severity of cognitive dysfunction, and the observed results align with a plausible hypothesis, this does not prove that these pathologic hallmarks are proximate to the ultimate neurotoxic species.”
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Autopsy is required for definitive AD diagnosis.
“Autopsy is required for definitive AD diagnosis, yet autopsy rates are generally low and autopsy inevitably confers a selection bias.”
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Autopsy rates are generally low.
“Autopsy is required for definitive AD diagnosis, yet autopsy rates are generally low and autopsy inevitably confers a selection bias.”
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CPC studies rarely are a random sample of the population.
“Furthermore, CPC studies rarely are a random sample of the population and clinic- and hospital-based CPCs are subject to other potential biases.”
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Most prior studies have concentrated on middle- and upper-income whites.
“Most prior studies have been performed in countries with the most advantageous socioeconomic conditions and have concentrated on middle- and upper-income whites.”
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Both clinical and pathologic assessments are imperfect, variably applied, and constantly evolving.
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Neurofibrillary tangles are quantified with certainty only at autopsy.
“As with AβPs, NFTs are quantified with certainty only at autopsy.”
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“Numerous studies have linked tau pathology to cognitive decline, with some evidence suggesting it progresses more rapidly than Aβ accumulation and correlates with neuroinflammation, making it a valuable prognostic marker [20, 25–28].”
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“VEEV neuropathology shares similarities with AD, a widespread cognitive disorder of aging, including increased astrogliosis, glial nodules, and pathological indicators of neuroinflammation including perivascular cuffing (Nelson et al., 2012; Williams et al., 2023).”
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“Variance in the distribution and burden of tauopathy in AD is closely associated with the clinical phenotype, 13 cognitive deficit, 14 and rate of cognitive decline. 15”
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“Histopathologically, AD is characterized by the formation of intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles consisting of the hyperphosphorylated microtubule protein, tau, and extracellular deposits of plaques of amyloid-β (Aβ), a breakdown product of the transmembrane amyloid precursor protein (APP) [241]”
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“Recent studies suggest that NFT pathology closely correlates with neurodegeneration and cognitive decline [1, 2].”
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“For example, there is minimal correlation between phases of amyloid deposition and degree of cognitive decline”
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“Unlike Aβ, the stage of tau pathology correlates well with progression of cognitive impairment”
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“Its tendency to accumulate for years without causing symptomatic disease (i.e., asymptomatic AD or AsymAD) supports this conclusion [35, 36].”
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“Compared with cortical Aβ plaque, the density and distribution of phosphorylated tau aggregated in NFTs correlate more closely with AD-associated cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration.12,13,14”
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“given that tangle burden is more closely correlated with cortical atrophy and cognitive decline [46]”
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“The close correlation between tau deposition and cognitive decline (3)”
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“In AD, tau burden appears to directly correlate with disease progression and cognitive decline (3).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nelson, P. T., Alafuzoff, I., Bigio, E. H., Bouras, C., Braak, H., Cairns, N. J., Castellani, R. J., Crain, B. J., Davies, P., Tredici, K. D., Duyckaerts, C., Frosch, M. P., Haroutunian, V., Hof, P. R., Hulette, C. M., Hyman, B. T., Iwatsubo, T., Jellinger, K. A., Jicha, G. A., Kövari, E., Kukull, W. A., Leverenz, J. B., Love, S., Mackenzie, I. R., Mann, D. M., Masliah, E., McKee, A. C., Montine, T. J., Morris, J. C., Schneider, J. A., Sonnen, J. A., Thal, D. R., Trojanowski, J. Q., Troncoso, J. C., Wisniewski, T., Woltjer, R. L., & Beach, T. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Kentucky (US)
- Uppsala University (SE)
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of Geneva (CH)
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Boston University (US)
- Rush University Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Nelson, Peter T.
- ORCID
- Nelson, Peter T.
- Alafuzoff, Irina
- Bigio, Eileen H.
- Braak, Heiko
- Castellani, Rudolph J.
- Davies, Peter
- Tredici, Kelly Del
- Duyckaerts, Charles
- Frosch, Matthew P.
- Haroutunian, Vahram
- Hof, Patrick R.
- Hyman, Bradley T.
- Iwatsubo, Takeshi
- Jellinger, Kurt A.
- Jicha, Gregory A.
- Kukull, Walter A.
- Leverenz, James B.
- Love, Seth
- Mackenzie, Ian R.
- Mann, David M.
- Masliah, Eliezer
- McKee, Ann C.
- Montine, Thomas J.
- Morris, John C.
- Schneider, Julie A.
- Sonnen, Joshua A.
- Thal, Dietmar R.
- Trojanowski, John Q.
- Troncoso, Juan C.
- Woltjer, Randall L.
- Beach, Thomas G.
- Venue
- Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2012-05
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 362-381
- ISSN
- 0022-3069 (ISSN-L)
- 1554-6578
- PMC
- PMC3560290
- OpenAlex
- W2074274706
- Semantic Scholar
- bce678baa6d56ad7c06197507d7903b6c7619507
- Cited by
- 2,050
- References
- 369
- Citations by year
- 2026: 115 · 2025: 153 · 2024: 166 · 2023: 161 · 2022: 213 · 2021: 205 · 2020: 194 · 2019: 179 · 2018: 139 · 2017: 134 · 2016: 108 · 2015: 95 · 2014: 98 · 2013: 72 · 2012: 17
- FWCI
- 12.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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- Locations
- Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology (publishedVersion)
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- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (submittedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Alzheimer's Association
- Alzheimer Forschung Initiative
- Alzheimer's Society
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Medical Research Council
- National Institute on Aging (AG-028383, AG 016976, AG-15819, AG13854, AG 10161, R01AG035071, AG-02219, AG 05136, P30AG028383, AG008017, U01AG006781, AG 05138, U01AG016976, P50AG005138, AG-06647, AG035071, P30AG010124, AG 05681, R01AG015819, P30AG008017, AG-10124, P30AG010161, R37AG022102, R01AG006647, P30AG008051, AG 08051, P50AG005681, R01AG022102, P50AG005136, P30AG013854, U19AG010483, R37AG006647, R01AG020245, P01AG002219, RF1AG015819)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS073502)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease, clinicopathological correlation, cognitive impairment, amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, disease severity
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Alzheimer Disease, Brain, Cognition Disorders, Humans, Statistics as Topic, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Neurofibrillary Tangles, Plaque, Amyloid
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