A quantitative study of tau pathology in eleven cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy

AIMS: To quantify tau pathology of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and investigate influence of dot-like lesions (DL), brain region, co-morbidity, and sporting career length. METHODS: Densities of neurofibrillary tangles (NFT), astrocytic tangles (AT), DL, oligodendroglial inclusions (GI), neuropil threads (NT), vacuoles, neurons, and enlarged neurons (EN) were measured in tau-immunoreactive sections of upper cortical laminae of frontal and temporal lobe, hippocampus (HC), amygdala, and substantia nigra (SN) of eleven cases of CTE. RESULTS: DL were a consistent finding in CTE. Densities of NFT, NT and DL were greatest in sectors CA1 and CA2 of the HC. Densities of AT were lower than NFT, small numbers of GI were recorded in temporal lobe, and low densities of vacuoles and EN were consistently present. β-amyloid containing neuritic plaques (NP) also occurred at low density. Densities of NFT, NT, DL, and AT were greater in sulci than gyri while vacuole density was greater in gyri. Principal components analysis (PCA) suggested that sporting career length and densities of NFT in entorhinal cortex, NT in CA2 and SN, and vacuolation in the DG were significant sources of variation among cases. CONCLUSION: DL are frequent in CTE suggesting affinity with argyrophilic grain disease (AGD) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PD-Dem). Densities of AT in all regions and NT/DL in sectors CA2/4 were consistent features of CTE. The eleven cases are neuropathologically heterogeneous which may result from genetic diversity, and variation in anatomical pathways subjected to trauma. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Resting state morphology predicts the effect of theta burst stimulation in false belief reasoning:ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in false belief reasoning

When required to represent a perspective that conflicts with one's own, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) suggests that the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (rvlPFC) supports the inhibition of that conflicting self-perspective. The present task dissociated inhibition of self-perspective from other executive control processes by contrasting belief reasoning-a cognitive state where the presence of conflicting perspectives was manipulated-with a conative desire state wherein no systematic conflict existed. Linear modeling was used to examine the effect of continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) to rvlPFC on participants' reaction times in belief and desire reasoning. It was anticipated that cTBS applied to rvlPFC would affect belief but not desire reasoning, by modulating activity in the Ventral Attention System (VAS). We further anticipated that this effect would be mediated by functional connectivity within this network, which was identified using resting state fMRI and an unbiased model-free approach. Simple reaction-time analysis failed to detect an effect of cTBS. However, by additionally modeling individual measures from within the stimulated network, the hypothesized effect of cTBS to belief (but, importantly, not desire) reasoning was demonstrated. Structural morphology within the stimulated region, rvlPFC, and right temporoparietal junction were demonstrated to underlie this effect. These data provide evidence that inconsistencies found with cTBS can be mediated by the composition of the functional network that is being stimulated. We suggest that the common claim that this network constitutes the VAS explains the effect of cTBS to this network on false belief reasoning. Hum Brain Mapp, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Mutant tau knock-in mice display frontotemporal dementia relevant behaviour and histopathology

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Effect of interferon-TAU protein secretion in bovine endometrial cells and its modulation by steroid hormones

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Caractérisation de l'interaction des protéines associées aux microtubules, MAP2 et Tau avec les organelles membranaires et le rôle de ces protéines dans le maintien de la structure de ces organelles

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Association de tau avec les membranes Golgiennes : nouvelles avenues dans la pathogenèse de tau

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Expression, activation et localisation de CaMKII, CDK5, GSK3[bêta], PKA et ROCKII dans les souris JNPL3 qui expriment la forme humaine mutante P301L de tau

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Rôle de la phosphorylation dans la distribution cellulaire de la protéine tau

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Effect of interferon-TAU protein secretion in bovine endometrial cells and its modulation by steroid hormones

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Caractérisation de l'interaction des protéines associées aux microtubules, MAP2 et Tau avec les organelles membranaires et le rôle de ces protéines dans le maintien de la structure de ces organelles

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Association de tau avec les membranes Golgiennes : nouvelles avenues dans la pathogenèse de tau

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Expression, activation et localisation de CaMKII, CDK5, GSK3[bêta], PKA et ROCKII dans les souris JNPL3 qui expriment la forme humaine mutante P301L de tau

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Rôle de la phosphorylation dans la distribution cellulaire de la protéine tau

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Theta-associated high-frequency oscillations (110–160 Hz) in the hippocampus and neocortex

TORT, A. B. L. ; SCHEFFER-TEIXEIRA, R ; Souza, B.C. ; DRAGUHN, A. ; BRANKACK, J. . Theta-associated high-frequency oscillations (110-160 Hz) in the hippocampus and neocortex. Progress in Neurobiology , v. 100, p. 1-14, 2013.