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ReviewJournal of Huntington's disease2021

Do Changes in Synaptic Autophagy Underlie the Cognitive Impairments in Huntington's Disease?

Hilary Grosso Jasutkar, Ai Yamamoto

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Review in Journal of Huntington's disease, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Mild cognitive impairment in Huntington's disease: challenges and outlooks.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hilary Grosso JasutkarDepartment of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Ai YamamotoDepartment of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Columbia University · US

Funding

Modulating selective autophagy to modify Huntington's diseaseR01NS077111 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Ai Yamamoto · 2012 to 2026
$4.3M
Selective autophagy in Parkinson'sdiseaseR01NS101663 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Ai Yamamoto · 2018 to 2026
$3.1M
Developing a microfluidic human neurovascular unit system to investigate genetic and age-related risk factors in Alzheimer's diseaseR01AG078352 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Dritan Agalliu, Andrew Alexander Sproul · 2025 to 2026
$837k
The role of autophagy in the neurovascular unit for the physiological response to stress.R21NS118891 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI AGALLIU, DRITAN, YAMAMOTO, AI · 2020 to 2020
$438k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG078352NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS077111NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS101663NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS118891
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although Huntington's disease (HD) is classically considered from the perspective of the motor syndrome, the cognitive changes in HD are prominent and often an early manifestation of disease. As such, investigating the underlying pathophysiology of cognitive changes may give insight into important and early neurodegenerative events. In this review, we first discuss evidence from both HD patients and animal models that cognitive changes correlate with early pathological changes at the synapse, an observation that is similarly made in other neurodegenerative conditions that primarily affect cognition. We then describe how autophagy plays a critical role supporting synaptic maintenance in the healthy brain, and how autophagy dysfunction in HD may thereby lead to impaired synaptic maintenance and thus early manifestations of disease.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutophagyBrainCognitionCognitive DysfunctionDisease Models, AnimalHumansHuntington DiseaseMiceSynapsesautophagycognitionHuntington’s diseasesynapsesynaptic dysfunction

Identifiers

PMID33780373
PMCPMC8293641
OpenAlexW3138115811

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