G J Biessels

..Given the recent progress in this field, new treatments to prevent cognitive impairment in patients with diabetes may hopefully become available in the near future...

..It is concluded that nimodipine can partially prevent early functional deficits in the peripheral and central nervous system of streptozotocin-diabetic rats but is unable to reverse late deficits...

..However, the compound does reverse established deficits in long-term potentiation, suggesting that at least part of its activity is specifically directed at synaptic plasticity...

..In this paper, the evidence for the association between DM2 and dementia and for each of these underlying mechanisms will be reviewed, with emphasis on the role of insulin itself...

..Type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with an increased risk of cognitive decline and dementia. We examined brain imaging correlates and vascular and metabolic risk factors of accelerated cognitive decline in patients with type 2 diabetes...

..Persistent facilitation of LTD and inhibition of LTP may contribute to learning and memory impairments associated with diabetes mellitus...

..The pre-training experiment suggests that the performance deficit of diabetic rats in the spatial version of the water maze is related to difficulties in learning the procedures of the maze rather than to impairments of spatial learning...

..The present study examined the relationship between microvascular complications and cognitive decline and the development of structural brain abnormalities over a period of 4 years in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)...

..In patients with symptomatic arterial disease, we studied the effect of DM2 on cognition and identified clinical and radiological determinants for impaired cognition in patients with DM2...

..How this cognitive profile evolves over time is uncertain. The present study aims to provide detailed information on the evolution of cognitive decrements in type 2 diabetes over time...

..It is unclear whether this atrophy is global or if there are areas with particular vulnerability. We compared regional cortical atrophy between patients with T2DM and controls and examined determinants of atrophy within the T2DM group...

..In the general population, cerebral hypoperfusion is a risk factor for cognitive dysfunction and dementia. Reduced cerebral perfusion may account for cognitive impairments in diabetic patients relative to controls...

..We examined whether a previously designed dementia risk score based on midlife vascular risk profiles also predicts cognitive impairment 15 years later...

..We examined the association between albuminuria, as a marker of microvascular damage, and cognition in older individuals...

..We conclude that peripheral neuropathy in patients with DM2 is not related to cognitive dysfunction and brain abnormalities. This indicates that central and peripheral neurological complications of DM2 might have different etiologies...

..The metabolic syndrome also appears to predispose to cognitive dysfunction and dementia. In this study the association between the metabolic syndrome and cognitive function was examined in a population of the oldest old...

..Therefore, we evaluated the effects of the antioxidants glutathione and alpha-lipoic acid on both nerve microcirculation and the antioxidative capacity and lipid peroxidation in experimentally diabetic rats...

..Paired-pulse facilitation (PPF) experiments showed that the medium glucose concentration did not significantly influence potentiation of the second response...

..The proposed method is particularly suited to analyze WMH distribution differences at the level of the lateral ventricles between large groups of patients...

..We compared an automated and two visual WMH scoring methods in their relations with age and cognitive function...

..Next, the sequence was used for in vivo glucose detection in normal rat brain during D-glucose infusion and in the brain of diabetic rats prior to and following insulin infusion...

..The present study aimed to identify metabolic and vascular factors that are associated with impaired cognitive performance and abnormalities on brain MRI in patients with type 2 diabetes...

..Furthermore, potential determinants of impaired cognition in type 2 diabetes are addressed both from the perspective of statistical associations and from a mechanistic point of view...

..Reductions in N-acetylaspartate levels in the brain of STZ-diabetic rats were shown by 1H spectroscopy, which could present a marker for early metabolic or functional abnormalities in cerebral neurones in diabetes...

..Although in these patients hyperglycaemia is commonly ascribed to insulin resistance, there is little understanding of underlying mechanisms...

..The aim of the present study was to investigate if safe, effective and feasible TGC can be achieved with continuous tube feeding and a computerized treatment protocol...

..These data underscore the notion that the diabetic brain at the neuronal level shares properties with brain aging...

..Post-stroke hyperglycemia (HG) is associated with poor physical recovery, in particular in patients with cortical stroke. We tested whether HG is also associated with cognitive impairment after ischemic stroke...

..Hyperglycaemia has been related to poor outcome and delayed cerebral ischaemia (DCI) after aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH)...

..The defects in diabetic slices could be related to pre- as well as postsynaptic changes, and these defects play an important role in the synaptic plasticity changes seen in STZ-induced diabetic animals...

..Our data give evidence that this can be done in a reliable manner. Segmentation of subfields in the full-length of the hippocampus may bolster the study of the etiology neuropsychiatric diseases...

..This suggests that the damage occurs in previous years and that therapies aimed at preventing cognitive decline and dementia should focus on the younger old...

..55%, mean difference: -7.9 (confidence interval -18.0, 2.2)]. CONCLUSION: We conclude that CVR is not impaired in unselected patients with DM2 and probably does not, therefore, play a major role in the aetiology of cognitive impairment...

..In this study we used an automated segmentation technique to investigate the association of type 2 diabetes, several diabetes-related risk factors and cognition with cerebral tissue and WML volumes...

..These findings suggest that vasculopathy plays a role in the development of cerebral dysfunction in diabetic rats...

..The present study examined if prevention and intervention treatment with the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor enalapril could improve peripheral and central neurophysiological deficits in streptozotocin-diabetic rats...

..This study aims to compare the visualization of microbleeds with 3D T2*-weighted imaging at 1.5T with 3D dual-echo T2*-weighted imaging at 7T...

..In conclusion, these data show a reduced response to PDB in STZ-diabetic rats, and indicate that the lack of LTP induction in these animals is not due to increased PP2B activity...

..The risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increased in type 2 diabetes (DM2). This increased risk has been attributed to vascular comorbidity, but other mechanisms, such as accelerated ageing of the brain, have also been implicated...

..At present there are few leads for the targeted diagnostics and treatment of individual patients...

..We conclude that PI3K is an important integrator of insulin signalling in Neuro2a cells as it regulates activation of PKB and inhibition of ERK1/2, and is sensitive to the duration of the insulin stimulus...

..Similar cytokine patterns in both operated groups suggest that surgical trauma rather than exposure of blood to extra-corporeal circuit was probably responsible for the inflammatory response...

..Preliminary studies indicate that nimodipine may also improve Ca(2+)-dependent forms of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus of diabetic rats...

..22 was found. These results suggest that self-awareness is domain-specific, and although it is adaptive to the experience of mental effort, it is most dependent on preexisting beliefs about one's own cognitive abilities...

..Because clinically relevant cognitive deficits mainly occur in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes, the challenge for researchers in this field will be to further develop adequate models...

..Hyperglycemia may worsen outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. We performed a systematic review to investigate the relation between admission hyperglycemia and outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage...

..How these brain-imaging abnormalities evolve over time is unknown. The present study aims to quantify cerebral atrophy and WMH progression over 4 years in type 2 diabetes...

..To determine the association between markers of glycemia and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid beta 1-42 (Abeta42) and tau levels in patients attending a memory clinic...

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..We conclude that cognitive impairments in patients with type 2 diabetes are not only associated with subcortical ischemic changes in the brain, but also with increased brain atrophy...

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..Interestingly, the differences in the "cognitive profile" between type 1 and type 2 diabetes also suggest a critical role for disturbances of insulin action in the central nervous system...

..Finally, we provide directions on the use of insulin treatment strategies to control hyperglycemia in this patient group...

..The present study compared the vascular risk factor profile over the preceding 16 years between T2DM patients with good cognitive functioning and those with poor cognitive functioning...

..These subjects will be covered from various angles, from the level of molecular neurosciences, to the level of applied neuropsychology...

..CONCLUSIONS: In patients with symptomatic arterial disease, DM2 has an added detrimental effect on the brain. In patients with DM2, hyperglycemia and diabetes duration contribute to brain atrophy...

..We conclude that cognition in older type 1 diabetic patients is only mildly disturbed. Chronic exposure to hyperglycemia is in itself, even at older age, apparently not sufficient to have considerable impact on the brain...

..In addition, the possible role of cerebrovascular changes, oxidative stress, nonenzymatic protein glycation, insulin and alterations in neuronal calcium homeostasis are addressed...

..The findings of previous imaging studies in diabetes are discussed from a methodological perspective and recommendations for future research are given...

..Contrary to our hypothesis, cognitive disturbances and psychological distress thus seem independent symptoms of the same disease...

..Further high quality studies need to be initiated, with objective diabetes assessment, together with reliable methods to establish the contribution of vascular disease and other comorbidity to dementia...

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..It has been suggested that cognitive impairments are more pronounced in DM2 than in DM1, but studies that directly compare the effects of these 2 types of DM on cognition are lacking...

..Later in life diabetes appears to convey the highest risk of dementia. This review shows that vascular risk factors should be regarded as a major target for preventive measures, but that timing of such measures appears to be critical...