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ArticleBrain and behavior2017

Biomarkers in subtypes of mild cognitive impairment and subjective cognitive decline.

Carl F Eliassen, Ivar Reinvang, Per Selnes, Ramune Grambaite, Tormod Fladby, Erik Hessen

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Article in Brain and behavior, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Carl F EliassenDepartment of Psychology University of Oslo Oslo Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-1489-2663
Ivar ReinvangDepartment of Psychology University of Oslo Oslo Norway.
Per SelnesDepartment of Neurology Akershus University Hospital Lørenskog Norway.
Ramune GrambaiteDepartment of Neurology Akershus University Hospital Lørenskog Norway.
Tormod FladbyDepartment of Neurology Akershus University Hospital Lørenskog Norway.
Erik HessenDepartment of Psychology University of Oslo Oslo Norway.
University of Oslo · NOAkershus University Hospital · NO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesPreclinical Alzheimers disease (AD) patients may or may not show cognitive impairment on testing. AD biomarkers are central to the identification of those at low, intermediate, or high risk of later dementia due to AD. We investigated biomarker distribution in those identified as subjective cognitive decline (SCD), amnestic (aMCI), and nonamnestic (naMCI) mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subtypes. In addition, the clinical groups were compared with controls on downstream neuroimaging markers. MATERIALS AND

methodsCerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-β42 (A β42) and total tau (t-tau), phosphorylated tau (p-tau), fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), positron-emission tomography (PET), and MRI neuroimaging measures were collected from 116 memory clinic patients. They were characterized as SCD, aMCI, and naMCI according to comprehensive neuropsychological criteria. ANOVAs were used to assess differences when biomarkers were treated as continuous variables and chi square analyses were used to assess group differences in distribution of biomarkers.

resultsWe did not find any between group differences in Aβ42, nor in p-tau, but we observed elevated t-tau in aMCI and SCD relative to the naMCI group. Significantly lower cortical glucose metabolism (as measured by FDG PET) was found in aMCI relative to SCD and controls, and there was a trend for lower metabolism in naMCI. Significant thinner entorhinal cortex (ERC) was found in aMCI and SCD. As expected biomarkers were significantly more frequently pathological in aMCI than in naMCI and SCD, whereas the naMCI and SCD groups displayed similar pathological biomarker burden.

conclusionsaMCI cases show the most pathologic biomarker burden. Interestingly naMCI and SCD subjects show similar levels of pathological biomarkers albeit the former displayed neuropsychological deficits. That the latter group may represent a risk group is supported by our observation of both elevated CSF tau and thinner ERC relative to controls.

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