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ReviewMolecular neurodegeneration2024

The concept of resilience to Alzheimer's Disease: current definitions and cellular and molecular mechanisms.

Luuk E de Vries, Inge Huitinga, Helmut W Kessels, Dick F Swaab, Joost Verhaagen

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Review in Molecular neurodegeneration, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Choroid plexus volume in pathology-confirmed Alzheimer's disease.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2026
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  13. Blood-based proteomic signature of amyloidosis: identification of novel regulators of amyloid load.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  14. A lifespan staging model of basal forebrain cholinergic vulnerability.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  15. Stable neuronal representations underlie cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's disease pathology.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  18. A harmonized framework for studying exceptional cognitive aging in Latin America.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Luuk E de VriesDepartment of Neuroregeneration, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. l.de.vries@nin.knaw.nl.ORCID 0009-0005-6133-1043
Inge HuitingaDepartment of Neuroimmunology, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4878-8920
Helmut W KesselsSwammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Amsterdam Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1122-745X
Dick F SwaabDepartment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9665-7845
Joost VerhaagenDepartment of Neuroregeneration, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8341-1096

Funding

Alzheimer Nederland WE.03-2022-02Hersenstichting DR-2018-00252
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some individuals are able to maintain their cognitive abilities despite the presence of significant Alzheimer's Disease (AD) neuropathological changes. This discrepancy between cognition and pathology has been labeled as resilience and has evolved into a widely debated concept. External factors such as cognitive stimulation are associated with resilience to AD, but the exact cellular and molecular underpinnings are not completely understood. In this review, we discuss the current definitions used in the field, highlight the translational approaches used to investigate resilience to AD and summarize the underlying cellular and molecular substrates of resilience that have been derived from human and animal studies, which have received more and more attention in the last few years. From these studies the picture emerges that resilient individuals are different from AD patients in terms of specific pathological species and their cellular reaction to AD pathology, which possibly helps to maintain cognition up to a certain tipping point. Studying these rare resilient individuals can be of great importance as it could pave the way to novel therapeutic avenues for AD.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseResilience, PsychologicalAnimalsBrainCognitionHumansAlzheimer’s diseaseAnimal modelsCognitionMolecular biologyNeuropathologyPost-mortem human brainResilience

Identifiers

PMID38589893
PMCPMC11003087

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