Publications by authors named "Zuzana Nedelska"

Impaired spatial navigation is early marker of Alzheimer's disease (AD). We examined ability of self- and informant-reported navigation questionnaires to discriminate between clinically and biomarker-defined participants, and associations of questionnaires with navigation performance, regional brain atrophy, AD biomarkers, and biomarker status. 262 participants (cognitively normal, with subjective cognitive decline, amnestic mild cognitive impairment [aMCI], and mild dementia) and their informants completed three navigation questionnaires.

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  • This study investigates mitophagy impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD) by examining biomarkers in serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from 246 individuals, including those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI-AD), AD dementia, and cognitively unimpaired individuals.
  • The results indicate that certain biomarkers (PINK1, BNIP3L, TFEB) were differently expressed in individuals with AD compared to those who were cognitively unimpaired, suggesting a link between mitophagy impairment and AD pathology.
  • Moreover, the levels of these biomarkers correlated with cognitive function and clinical indicators of AD severity, highlighting the potential of mitophagy biomarkers as indicators for disease progression.
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Introduction: Sex influences neurodegeneration, but it has been poorly investigated in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). We investigated sex differences in brain atrophy in DLB using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Methods: We included 436 patients from the European-DLB consortium and the Mayo Clinic.

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Background: There is a need to better understand the rate of cognitive and motor decline of Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease Dementia (PDD).

Objectives: To compare the rate of cognitive and motor decline in patients with DLB and PDD from the E-DLB Consortium and the Parkinson's Incidence Cohorts Collaboration (PICC) Cohorts.

Methods: The annual change in MMSE and MDS-UPDRS part III was estimated using linear mixed regression models in patients with at least one follow-up (DLB  = 837 and PDD  = 157).

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Brain dynamics and the associations with spatial navigation in individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) remain unknown. In this study, a hidden Markov model (HMM) was inferred from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data in a cohort of 80 SCD and 77 normal control (NC) participants. By HMM, 12 states with distinct brain activity were identified.

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Background: Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) may serve as a symptomatic indicator for preclinical Alzheimer's disease; however, SCD is a heterogeneous entity regarding clinical progression. We aimed to investigate whether spatial navigation could reveal subcortical structural alterations and the risk of progression to objective cognitive impairment in SCD individuals.

Methods: One hundred and eighty participants were enrolled: those with SCD (n = 80), normal controls (NCs, n = 77), and mild cognitive impairment (MCI, n = 23).

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The choroid plexus (ChP) produces and is bathed in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which in aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) shows extensive proteomic alterations including evidence of inflammation. Considering inflammation hampers functions of the involved tissues, the CSF abnormalities reported in these conditions are suggestive of ChP injury. Indeed, several studies document ChP damage in aging and AD, which nevertheless remains to be systematically characterized.

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  • Sex differences play a significant role in neuroimaging phenotypes related to dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), but the extent of this contribution remains underexplored.
  • A study involving 442 probable DLB patients revealed that males exhibited higher rates of frontal atrophy and smaller gray matter volumes in several regions compared to females, suggesting distinct neurodegenerative patterns based on sex.
  • Additionally, the interaction between sex and age showed that while younger females experienced less atrophy than males, this difference diminished by around age 75, indicating a convergence in atrophy levels as age increases.
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Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a neurodegenerative disorder with a wide heterogeneity of symptoms, which suggests the existence of different subtypes. We used data-driven analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data to investigate DLB subtypes. We included 165 DLB from the Mayo Clinic and 3 centers from the European DLB consortium and performed a hierarchical cluster analysis to identify subtypes based on gray matter (GM) volumes.

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  • Dementia syndrome is a severe condition affecting older adults, highlighting the importance of accurate diagnosis as treatments for neurodegeneration emerge.
  • The study examined data from the Czech Brain Aging Study, comparing cognitive performance and brain volume in participants with and without dementia, using indicators of cognitive reserve (CR) like education and occupation.
  • Results showed that higher education and occupational position strengthened the connection between brain volume and cognitive function in those without dementia, while the association weakened for those with dementia, indicating that CR affects cognitive performance relative to brain health.
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Background: Spatial navigation impairment is a promising cognitive marker of Alzheimer's disease (AD) that can reflect the underlying pathology.

Objectives: We assessed spatial navigation performance in AD biomarker positive older adults with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (AD aMCI) vs. those AD biomarker negative (non-AD aMCI), and examined associations between navigation performance, MRI measures of brain atrophy, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers.

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Mild cognitive impairment with the core clinical features of dementia with Lewy bodies is recognized as a prodromal stage of dementia with Lewy bodies. Although grey matter atrophy has been demonstrated in prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies, longitudinal rates of atrophy during progression to probable dementia with Lewy bodies are unknown. We investigated the regional patterns of cross-sectional and longitudinal rates of grey matter atrophy in prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies, including those who progressed to probable dementia with Lewy bodies.

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Background: The ability to understand emotions is often disturbed in patients with cognitive impairments. Right temporal lobe structures play a crucial role in emotional processing, especially the amygdala, temporal pole (TP), superior temporal sulcus (STS), and anterior cingulate (AC). Those regions are affected in early stages of Alzheimer´s disease (AD).

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Background: Cholinergic deficit and medial temporal lobe (MTL) atrophy are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) leading to early allocentric spatial navigation (aSN) impairment. APOEɛ4 allele (E4) is a major genetic risk factor for late-onset AD and contributes to cholinergic dysfunction. Basal forebrain (BF) nuclei, the major source of acetylcholine, project into multiple brain regions and, along with MTL and prefrontal cortex (PFC), are involved in aSN processing.

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Innovative memory paradigms have been introduced to capture subtle memory changes in early Alzheimer's disease (AD). We aimed to examine the associations between different indexes of the challenging Memory Binding Test (MBT) and hippocampal volume (HV) in a sample of individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD; = 50), amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) due to AD ( = 31), and cognitively normal (CN) older adults ( = 29) recruited from the Czech Brain Aging Study, in contrast to traditional verbal memory tests. Both MBT free and cued recall scores in immediate and delayed recall conditions were associated with lower HV in both SCD and aMCI due to AD, whereas in traditional verbal memory tests only delayed recall scores were associated with lower HV.

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Impairment in spatial navigation (SN) and structural network topology is not limited to patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia and can be detected earlier in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We recruited 32 MCI patients (65.91 ± 11.

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We investigated whether cerebrovascular disease contributes to neurodegeneration and clinical phenotype in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Regional cortical thickness and subcortical gray matter volumes were estimated from structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 165 DLB patients. Cortical and subcortical infarcts were recorded and white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) were assessed.

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Objectives: Mild behavioral impairment (MBI) is a syndrome describing late-onset persistent neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in non-demented older adults. Few studies to date have investigated the associations of MBI with structural brain changes. Our aim was to explore structural correlates of NPS in a non-demented memory clinic sample using the Mild Behavioral Impairment Checklist (MBI-C) that has been developed to measure MBI.

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Background: Identifying modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline can reduce burden of dementia.

Objective: We examined whether homocysteine was associated with memory performance, mediated by entorhinal volume, hippocampal volume, total gray matter volume, or white matter lesions, and moderated by APOE ɛ4 allele, B vitamins, creatinine, total cholesterol, or triglycerides.

Methods: All 204 members of the Czech Brain Aging Study with subjective cognitive decline (SCD; n = 60) or amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI; n = 144) who had valid data were included.

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Individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) are at higher risk of incipient Alzheimer's disease (AD). Spatial navigation (SN) impairments in AD dementia and mild cognitive impairment patients have been well-documented; however, studies investigating SN deficits in SCD subjects are still lacking. This study aimed to explore whether basal forebrain (BF) and entorhinal cortex (EC) atrophy contribute to spatial disorientation in the SCD stage.

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Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) related dementia and mild cognitive impairment experience difficulties with spatial navigation (SN). However, SN has rarely been investigated in individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD), a preclinical stage with elevated progression rate to symptomatic AD. In this study, 30 SCD subjects and 30 controls underwent cognitive scale (CS) evaluation, a 2D computerized SN test, and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning.

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Background: The apolipoprotein E (APOE) ɛ4 allele is associated with episodic memory and spatial navigation deficits. The brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) Met allele may further worsen memory impairment in APOEɛ4 carriers but its role in APOEɛ4-related spatial navigation deficits has not been established.

Objective: We examined influence of APOE and BDNF Val66Met polymorphism combination on spatial navigation and volumes of selected navigation-related brain regions in cognitively unimpaired (CU) older adults and those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI).

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Purpose: Our objectives were to assess the abnormalities of subcortical nuclei by combining volume and shape analyses and potential association with cognitive impairment.

Patients And Methods: Twenty-nine patients with severe ACS of the unilateral internal carotid artery and 31 controls were enrolled between January 2017 to August 2018. All participants underwent a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation, blood lipid biochemical measurements, and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure subcortical volumes and sub-regional shape deformations.

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Objective: In a multicenter cohort of probable dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), we tested the hypothesis that β-amyloid and tau biomarker positivity increases with age, which is modified by genotype and sex, and that there are isolated and synergistic associations with the clinical phenotype.

Methods: We included 417 patients with DLB (age 45-93 years, 31% women). Positivity on β-amyloid (A+) and tau (T+) biomarkers was determined by CSF β-amyloid and phosphorylated tau in the European cohort and by Pittsburgh compound B and AV-1451 PET in the Mayo Clinic cohort.

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