Neuroinflammation is highest in areas of disease progression in semantic dementia

…, MD Cykowski, M Veronese, E Rockers… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Despite epidemiological and genetic data linking semantic dementia to inflammation, the
topography of neuroinflammation in semantic dementia, also known as the semantic variant of …

In Alzheimer-prone brain regions, metabolism and risk-gene expression are strongly correlated

F Ye, Q Funk, E Rockers, JM Shulman… - Brain …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Neuroimaging in the preclinical phase of Alzheimer’s disease provides information crucial
to early intervention, particularly in people with a high genetic risk. Metabolic network …

Multimodal 18F-AV-1451 and MRI findings in nonfluent variant of primary progressive aphasia: possible insights on nodal propagation of tau protein across the …

…, P Zanotti-Fregonara, N Pal, E Rockers… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
Although abnormally folded tau protein has been found to self-propagate from neuron to
connected neuron, similar propagation through human brain networks has not been fully …

[11C] MK-6884 PET Tracer for M4 Muscarinic Cholinergic Receptors in Alzheimer's Disease: Comparison with [18F] FDG PET (2640)

…, M Yu, Q Funk, V Arbones, E Rockers… - 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: Recently, a M4 muscarinic cholinergic receptor PET tracer has been developed
that shows good imaging characteristics. We report on the first group of AD patients to be …

Posterior primary progressive prosopagnosia: Structural and molecular imaging

…, Q Funk, P Zanotti-Fregonara, M Shyer, E Rockers… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Amyloid-negative pathology underlying primary progressive prosopagnosia usually affects
the tip of the right temporal lobe first. However, a 69-year-old right-handed man, with amyloid-…

Tau in the nonfluent variant of primary progressive aphasia: network involvement (P5. 095)

B Pascual, PZ Fregonara, Q Funk, E Rockers, N Pal… - 2017 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To identify tau deposition in the sporadic nonfluent/agrammatic variant of primary
progressive aphasia (nfvPPA) using 18 F-AV-1451 PET. Background: nfvPPA is …

Flortaucipir and Neuroinflammation PET in Semantic Dementia (4741)

J Masdeu, B Pascual, N Pal, E Rockers, Q Funk, M Yu… - 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: We studied whether there was an association between flortaucipir ([ 18 F]AV-1451)
uptake and neuroinflammation, measured with the TSPO tracer 11 C-PBR28. Background: …

Neuroinflammation in Semantic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia

…, M Cykowski, M Veronese, E Rockers… - 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
101 Introduction: Semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) has a characteristic
clinical phenotype defined by cognitive and imaging findings. Anomia and single word …

Quantitative analysis of 3D T1‐weighted gadolinium (Gd) DCE‐MRI with different repetition times

ED Rockers, MB Pascual, S Bajaj, JC Masdeu… - Medical Imaging and …, 2016 - Springer
Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) acquires T 1 -weighted MRI scans before and
after injection of an MRI contrast agent such as gadolinium (Gd). Gadolinium causes the …

Neuroinflammation and flortaucipir PET in non‐fluent/agrammatic variant of primary progressive aphasia and/or apraxia of speech

…, K Bradbury, C Jennings, E Rockers… - Alzheimer's & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Neuroinflammation, a hallmark of frontotemporal dementia, has been sparsely
studied in vivo. However, neuroinflammation is a potentially important therapeutic target and …