BackgroundThousands of research studies concerning genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have been published in the last decades. However, a comprehensive understanding of the current research status and future development trends of GWAS in AD have not been clearly shown. In this study, we tried to gain a systematic overview of GWAS in […]

Cognitive impairments, such as learning and memory deficits, may occur in susceptible populations including the elderly and patients who are chronically ill or have experienced stressful events, including surgery, infection, and trauma. Accumulating lines of evidence suggested that peripheral inflammation featured by the recruitment of peripheral immune cells and the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines may […]

BackgroundType 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a polygenic metabolic disorder that accelerates brain aging and harms cognitive function. The underlying mechanism of T2DM-related brain functional changes has not been clarified.MethodsResting-fMRI data were obtained from 99 T2DM and 109 healthy controls (HCs). Resting-state functional connectivity networks (RSNs) were separated using the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) method, and […]