SynthesisNeuroImage. Clinical2021
Differential vulnerability of the cerebellum in healthy ageing and Alzheimer's disease.
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52 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A bias-accounting meta-analytic approach refines and expands the cerebellar behavioral topography.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Neuroimaging studies of acupuncture on Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2023Pooled it
- Microstructural Cerebellar Injury Independently Associated With Processing Speed in Adult Patients With Primary Brain Tumors: Implications for Cognitive Preservation.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics · 2023Trial
- Anatomically constrained and curated cerebellar tractography (ACCURAT): an open framework and a pathway-specific neuroanatomical reference.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Right-lateralized cerebellar cortical thickening is associated with mild behavioral impairment in mild cognitive impairment.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2026Article
- Age-Related Low Frequency Amplitude Differences in Resting-State Blood Oxygenation Level-Dependent Signal in the Cerebellum.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Single-cell expression QTL analyses of the human cerebellum reveal vulnerability of oligodendrocytes in essential tremor.Nature genetics · 2026Article
- Monocolonization withMicrobiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Cerebellar subregional structural changes across the Alzheimer's disease continuum: a longitudinal analysis of cognitive and behavioural correlates.Brain communications · 2026Article
- Spatial and single-cell transcriptomics reveal the reorganization of cerebellar microglia with aging.Cell reports · 2025Article
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- Mapping hippocampal-cerebellar functional connectivity across the human adult lifespan.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Cerebellar White Matter Microstructure Is Associated With Age, Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid Beta Levels, and Cognition in Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Multi-Modal Deep Clustering Survival Machines for Alzheimer's Disease Subtype Discovery.... IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision workshops. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision · 2025Article
- Predicting Mental and Neurological Illnesses Based on Cerebellar Normative Features.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
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- Cerebellar Crus II Regulates Recognition and Spatial Memory in Mice.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the Sporadic Anti-Alzheimer's Activity of Purpurin Using In Silico, In Vitro, and In Vivo Approaches.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarker levels and APOE genetic status are associated with hippocampal-cerebellar functional connectivity.Neurobiology of aging · 2025Article
- A bias-accounting meta-analytic approach refines and expands the cerebellar behavioral topography.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Recent findings challenge the prior notion that the cerebellum remains unaffected by Alzheimer's disease (AD). Yet, it is unclear whether AD exacerbates age-related cerebellar grey matter decline or engages distinct structural and functional territories. We performed a meta-analysis of cerebellar grey matter loss in normal ageing and AD. We mapped voxels with structural decline onto established brain networks, functional parcellations, and along gradients that govern the functional organisation of the cerebellum. Importantly, these gradients track continuous changes in cerebellar specialisation providing a more nuanced measure of the functional profile of regions vulnerable to ageing and AD. Gradient 1 progresses from motor to cognitive territories; Gradient 2 isolates attentional processing; Gradient 3 captures lateralisation differences in cognitive functions. We identified bilateral and right-lateralised posterior cerebellar atrophy in ageing and AD, respectively. Age- and AD-related structural decline only showed partial spatial overlap in right lobule VI/Crus I. Despite the seemingly distinct patterns of AD- and age-related atrophy, the functional profiles of these regions were similar. Both participate in the same macroscale networks (default mode, frontoparietal, attention), support executive functions and language processing, and did not exhibit a difference in relative positions along Gradients 1 or 2. However, Gradient 3 values were significantly different in ageing vs. AD, suggesting that the roles of left and right atrophied cerebellar regions exhibit subtle functional differences despite their membership in similar macroscale networks. These findings provide an unprecedented characterisation of structural and functional differences and similarities in cerebellar grey matter loss between normal ageing and AD.
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