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Upcoming Supplementary Issue: Omics Approaches in Alzheimer's Disease Research (Guest Editor: Sudeshna Das). Click the visual for details in the Calls for Papers (PDF) (opens in a new tab). Submission deadline: July 31, 2023

Quiescent HSV-1 is reactivated by VZV infection to cause AD. (A) VCV-induced quiescence of HSV-1 shown by expression of LAT. VZV infection after HSV-1 latency confirmed by qPCR. HSV and VZV (B) and Aβ and TUJ1 expression (C) detected via immunostaining. From Cairns et al., JAD88(3).

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Edited by Giulio M. Pasinetti, this book (AIAD Vol.9) is a compilation of work by researchers intent on exploring the complex role of the gut microbiome in Alzheimer’s disease. For details & to order, click the image or go here

A 25-year-old patient experienced an extremely early onset of bvFTD with frontal-temporal atrophy on T1 and hypometabolism on FDG-PET, however, no Aβ and tau protein deposition was found on AV45 and PI2620 PET. From Chu et al., JAD90(3).

The 2022 Alzheimer Award goes to Yonas E. Geda, MD, and Janina Krell-Roesch, PhD, as co-authors of the winning JAD paper that presents important findings on the impact of physical activity on cognitive change in older adults. For details, go to: j-alz.com/award

Analysis of multi-shell DW-MRI reveals significant effects of disease stage on diffusion-derived measures of tissue integrity. Specific WM tracts show decreased apparent fiber density (AFD) and fiber bundle cross-section (FC). From Giraldo et al., JAD90(4).

COVID-19 content in JAD is openly available. Read all content including the editorial by JAD's Editor-in-Chief George Perry, in which he calls out for careful study to determine the numbers of AD patients infected and dying of COVID-19, via: bit.ly/JAD-COVID19

This new book, edited by Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas, is a compilation of work by researchers intent on revealing the links between air pollution and neurodegeneration. For details & to order, click the image or go here

p-tau181-positive axons overlap with parvalbumin-expressing interneurons with disrupted myelin sheets in APPNLGF. Brains were stained with antibodies against parvalbumin (magenta), p-tau181 (green), myelin basic protein (cyan) and FSB for Aβ plaques (blue). From Hirota et al., JAD93(3).

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A new model of tau pathology spread in the medial temporal lobe according to the adult neurogenesis theory of Alzheimer's disease. DG, dentate gyrus; EC, entorhinal cortex; TEC, trans-entorhinal cortex; CA, cornu ammonis. From Abbate, JAD93(4).

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Localization of axon initial segment (TRIM46, magenta) astrocytes (glial fibrillary acidic protein; GFAP, yellow), somatodendritic compartment (MAP2, cyan), and nuclei (Hoechst, blue) in primary wild type mouse cortical neuron cultures. From Best et al., JAD93(4).