Quantifying the accretion of hyperphosphorylated tau in the locus coeruleus and dorsal raphe nucleus: the pathological building blocks of early Alzheimer's disease (pages 393–408)A. J. Ehrenberg, A. K. Nguy, P. Theofilas, S. Dunlop, C. K. Suemoto, A. T. Di Lorenzo Alho, R. P. Leite, R. Diehl Rodriguez, M. B. Mejia, U. Rüb, J. M. Farfel, R. E. de Lucena Ferretti-Rebustini, C. F. Nascimento, R. Nitrini, C. A. Pasquallucci, W. Jacob-Filho, B. Miller, W. W. Seeley, H. Heinsen and L. T. Grinberg
Version of Record online: 31 MAR 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/nan.12387
Stereological analysis of tau pathology in the locus coeruleus and dorsal raphe nucleus in early Alzheimer's disease demonstrate that early involvement of brain stem nuclei has important functional implications.