Residential blue space, cognitive function, and the role of air pollution in middle-aged and older adults: A cross-sectional study based on UK biobank.

This study examines the relationship between residential exposure to blue spaces (e.g., rivers, lakes, and seas) and cognitive function in middle-aged and older adults in the United Kingdom, with a specific focus on the mediating effects of air pollution, particularly nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and fine particulate matter (PM).

Assessing the impact of immersive virtual reality technology on the psychological recovery of patients with Parkinson's disease depression: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial.

Background And Aim: Depression in Parkinson's disease (DPD) has a high incidence rate among patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). It is a common nonmotor symptom of PD that seriously affects the quality of life of patients. Thus, improving DPD is important for improving the quality of life of patients.

Association of synuclein alpha () gene polymorphisms with spontaneous brain activity in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Background: The synuclein alpha () gene responsible for encoding alpha-synuclein, is believed to play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the specific impact of gene single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on brain function in PD remains unclear. Therefore, this cross-sectional retrospective study, particularly through use of imaging analysis, aimed to characterize the relationship between gene SNPs and spontaneous brain activity in PD in order to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying PD pathogenesis.

Daytime napping and the incidence of Parkinson's disease: a prospective cohort study with Mendelian randomization.

Background: The causal relationship between daytime napping and the risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) remains unclear, with prospective studies providing limited evidence. This study investigated the association between daytime napping frequency and duration and PD incidence and explored the causality relationship between this association by conducting Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis.

Methods: This prospective cohort study included 393,302 participants, and accelerometer-measured daytime napping data were available only for 78,141 individuals.

Microarray Chip-Based High-Throughput Screening of Neurofilament Light Chain Self-Assembling Peptide for Noninvasive Monitoring of Alzheimer's Disease.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) starts decades before cognitive symptoms develop. Easily accessible and cost-effective biomarkers that accurately reflect AD pathology are essential for both monitoring and therapeutics of AD. Neurofilament light chain (NfL) levels in blood and cerebrospinal fluid are increased in AD more than a decade before the expected onset, thus providing one of the most promising blood biomarkers for monitoring of AD.

Left corticospinal tract could be a biomarker to identify the dual prodromal LRRK2/GBA mutated Parkinson's disease.

Introduction: Prodromal Parkinson's disease (PD) carriers of dual leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) and glucosylceramidase β (GBA) variants are rare, and their biomarkers are less well developed.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the biomarkers for diagnosing the prodromal phase of LRRK2-GBA-PD (LRRK2-GBA-prodromal).

Methods: We assessed the clinical and whole-brain white matter microstructural characteristics of 54 prodromal PD carriers of dual LRRK2 (100% M239T) and GBA (95% N409S) variants, along with 76 healthy controls (HCs) from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) cohort.

Association of Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants With Cognitive Performance and Dementia Risk and the Mediating Role of Pulmonary Function: Evidence From the UK Biobank.

Background: The pathways by which air pollution affects cognition remain to be explored. This study aimed to explore how single air pollutants [including nitrogen oxide (NOX), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers (PM2.

Association of physical activity pattern and risk of Parkinson's disease.

Increasing evidence suggests an association between exercise duration and Parkinson's disease. However, no high-quality prospective evidence exists confirming whether differences exist between the two modes of exercise, weekend warrior and equal distribution of exercise duration, and Parkinson's risk. Hence, this study aimed to explore the association between different exercise patterns and Parkinson's risk using exercise data from the UK Biobank.

Early-life tobacco smoke exposure and stroke risk: a prospective study of 341,783 and 352,737 UK Biobank participants.

Introduction: Stroke is a life-threatening condition that causes a major medical burden globally. The currently used methods for the prevention or prediction of stroke have certain limitations. Exposure to tobacco in early life, including smoking during adolescence and maternal smoking during pregnancy, can affect adolescent development and lead to several negative outcomes.

Biomimetic Nanovesicles as a Dual Gene Delivery System for the Synergistic Gene Therapy of Alzheimer's Disease.

The association between dysfunctional microglia and amyloid-β (Aβ) is a fundamental pathological event and increases the speed of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Additionally, the pathogenesis of AD is intricate and a single drug may not be enough to achieve a satisfactory therapeutic outcome. Herein, we reported a facile and effective gene therapy strategy for the modulation of microglia function and intervention of Aβ anabolism by ROS-responsive biomimetic exosome-liposome hybrid nanovesicles (designated as TSEL).

Associative role of as a protective factor for susceptibility and progression of Parkinson's disease: a Chinese cross-sectional and longitudinal study.

Background: Previous genome-wide association studies investigating the relationship between the and the risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) have shown limited racial diversity and have not explored clinical heterogeneity extensively.

Methods: The study consisted of three parts: a case-control study, a cross-sectional study, and a longitudinal cohort study. The case-control study included 477 PD patients and 477 healthy controls to explore the relationship between rs660895 and PD susceptibility.

Accelerated biological aging as potential mediator mediates the relationship between pro-inflammatory diets and the risk of depression and anxiety: A prospective analysis from the UK biobank.

Background: The relationship between inflammatory dietary patterns and the risk of depression/anxiety has not been clearly established due to differences in study populations, geographic regions, sex, and methods of calculating the inflammatory index.

Methods: We drew upon a prospective cohort in the UK Biobank and calculated the energy-adjusted dietary inflammatory index (E-DII). The follow-up time was defined from the date of completing the last dietary survey questionnaire to the date of diagnosis of depression, anxiety, phobic anxiety, other types of anxiety, death, loss to follow-up, or the respective censoring dates for England (September 30, 2021), Scotland (July 31, 2021), and Wales (February 28, 2018).

Fish oil supplementation, physical activity and risk of incident Parkinson's disease: results of longitudinal analysis from the UK Biobank.

Objective: Evidence on the individual and combined relationship of physical activity (PA) and fish oil supplement use on the incidence of Parkinson's disease (PD) risk remains lacking.

Materials And Methods: This UK population-based prospective cohort study, involving 385,275 UK Biobank participants, collected PA and fish oil supplement data via touchscreen questionnaires. Using Cox proportional hazards models and restricted cubic splines to examined the associations between use of fish oil supplements, PA and PD risk.

Cortical thickness and white matter microstructure predict freezing of gait development in Parkinson's disease.

The clinical applications of the association of cortical thickness and white matter fiber with freezing of gait (FoG) are limited in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). In this retrospective study, using white matter fiber from diffusion-weighted imaging and cortical thickness from structural-weighted imaging of magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated whether a machine learning-based model can help assess the risk of FoG at the individual level in patients with PD. Data from the Parkinson's Disease Progression Marker Initiative database were used as the discovery cohort, whereas those from the Fujian Medical University Union Hospital Parkinson's Disease database were used as the external validation cohort.

Different impulse control disorder evolution patterns and white matter microstructural damage in the progression of Parkinson's disease.

Background: The course of impulse control disorders (ICD) varies in the early stage of Parkinson's disease (PD).

Aim: We aimed to delineate the association between the evolution pattern of ICD and the progression of PD.

Methods: A total of 321 PD patients from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative database were included.

Association of time spent outdoors with the risk of Parkinson's disease: a prospective cohort study of 329,359 participants.

Background: Studies on the association between time spent outdoors and the development of Parkinson's disease (PD) are lacking, and whether this relationship differs in different subgroups (age, sex) remains unclear.

Objective: We here examined the association between time spent outdoors and the incidence of PD in different seasons.

Methods: This study included 329,359 participants from the UK Biobank.

Association between ethylene oxide levels and depressive symptoms: A cross-sectional study based on NHANES 2013-2018 database.

Background And Aim: Ethylene oxide (EO) is a commonly used compound with known health risks. However, the specific association between EO exposure and the development of depressive symptoms has not been well established. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the potential association between EO exposure, as indicated by hemoglobin adduct of ethylene oxide (HbEO) levels, and the occurrence of depressive symptoms.

Association between 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and cognitive impairment in older adults: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2001-2002 and 2011-2014.

Background: 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) is reported to be the most widely used herbicide in home and garden environments, rendering it commonly encountered in daily life. Despite being ubiquitous, there is a scarcity of studies that have comprehensively assessed the relationship between 2,4-D exposure and cognition using multiple models.

Objective: To explore the association between 2,4-D exposure and cognition among older American people.

Corrigendum: Proteomic profiling reveals the potential mechanisms and regulatory targets of sirtuin 4 in 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine-induced Parkinson's mouse model.

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Coffee consumption and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in older adults: should we consider cognitive function?

Background: The association between coffee and mortality risk has been found in most previous studies, and recent studies have found an association between coffee consumption and cognition. However, there is still a lack of research exploring whether the association between coffee and mortality is influenced by cognitive function.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the association of coffee, caffeine intake in coffee and decaffeinated coffee with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in older adults with different cognitive performances.

"High dietary live microbe intake is correlated with reduced risk of depressive symptoms: A cross-sectional study of NHANES 2007-2016".

Background: Recent research indicated that levels of dietary live microorganisms were inconsistently associated with the prevalence of depressive symptoms. This study aimed to investigate the correlation between consumption of live microorganisms and symptoms of depression.

Methods: Data on 21,653 study participants were obtained from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

Transcriptome sequencing of circular RNA reveals the involvement of hsa-SCMH1_0001 in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease.

Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease. Exosomes are endosome-derived extracellular vesicles that can take part in intercellular communication. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are noncoding RNAs characterized by covalently closed-loop structures, which perform a crucial function in many diseases.

Diffusion tensor imaging techniques show that parkin gene S/N167 polymorphism is responsible for extensive brain white matter damage in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Objective: To explore the influence of disease and genetic factors on the white matter microstructure in patients with PD. The white matter microstructural changes in the substantia nigra-striatum system were detected by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) using the region of interest (ROI) and diffusion tensor tracer (DTT) methods.

Methods: Patients with primary Parkinson's disease (PD) without a family history of PD were selected and divided into PD-G/G and PD-G/A groups according to their parkin S/N167 polymorphism.

Association of pro-inflammatory diet with increased risk of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer's dementia: a prospective study of 166,377 UK Biobank participants.

Background: Increasing evidence suggests an association between pro-inflammatory diets and cognitive function. However, only a few studies based on small sample sizes have explored the association between pro-inflammatory diets and dementia using the dietary inflammatory index (DII). Additionally, the relationship between DII and different subtypes of dementia, such as Alzheimer's dementia and vascular dementia, remains largely unexplored.

The effect of Parkin gene S/N 167 polymorphism on resting spontaneous brain functional activity in Parkinson's Disease.

Background: Genetic susceptibility plays a significant role in Parkinson's disease (PD) development. Carriers of the Parkin S/N167 mutation may have an increased risk of PD and altered spontaneous brain activity.

Objective: This study aims to investigate the potential pathogenesis of PD through a comparative analysis of the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF) in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) of subjects with Parkin gene S/N 167 polymorphisms, and to examine the association between spontaneous brain activity and clinical scale scores of PD.