Age and APOE are the most robust risk factors for dementia and cognitive decline, but the underlying neurobiology remains unclear. We examined the extent to which the hallmark pathologies of Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body disease, and cerebrovascular diseases account for the association of age and APOE with decline in episodic memory versus nonepisodic cognitive abilities. Up to 20 waves of lon...

Objective To explore genetic association between human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and neurodegenerative diseases investigate mechanisms behind the association. Background Pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's (PD) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) involves accumulation tau (neurofibrillary tangles) amyloid-ß-rich (amyloid plaques) aggregates in AD, a-synuclein-rich (Lewy bodie...

In this immunohistochemical study, the age- and stage-dependent accumulation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their relation to the formation of neurofibrillary tangles and neuronal cell death was investigated. For this purpose, the distribution of AGEs in neurons and glia was analyzed in the auditory association area of superior temporal gyrus (Brodmann...