• Current evidence on the effect of dietary polyphenols intake on chronic diseases 

      Costa C., Tsatsakis A., Mamoulakis C., Teodoro M., Briguglio G., Caruso E., Tsoukalas D., Margina D., Dardiotis E., Kouretas D., Fenga C. (2017)
      Polyphenols are secondary metabolites of plants. They comprise several antioxidant compounds and they are generally considered to be involved in the defense against human chronic diseases. During the last years, there has ...
    • Dementia incidence in the elderly population of greece: Results from the HELIAD study 

      Vlachos G.S., Kosmidis M.H., Yannakoulia M., Dardiotis E., Hadjigeorgiou G., Tzoulaki I., Georgiou A.N., Sakka P., Anastasiou C.A., Stefanis L., Scarmeas N. (2021)
      Objectives:Recently a declining trend in dementia incidence rates has been reported in high-income countries. We investigated dementia incidence in a representative sample of the Greek population in the age group of 65 ...
    • Dementia Prevalence in Greece 

      Kosmidis M.H., Vlachos G.S., Anastasiou C.A., Yannakoulia M., Dardiotis E., Hadjigeorgiou G., Sakka P., Ntanasi E., Scarmeas N. (2018)
      Introduction: Study of the epidemiology of dementia to gain insight into putative predisposing and prophylactic factors is the first step toward establishing effective preventive and therapeutic strategies for this ...
    • Differences of apathy perfusion correlates between Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. A 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT study with automated Brodmann areas analysis 

      Valotassiou V., Sifakis N., Tzavara C., Lykou E., Tsinia N., Kamtsadeli V., Sali D., Angelidis G., Psimadas D., Tsougos I., Papageorgiou S.G., Georgoulias P., Papatriantafyllou J. (2022)
      Objectives: To explore differences of apathy perfusion correlates between Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) using perfusion SPECT. Methods: We studied 75 FTD and 66 AD patients. We evaluated apathy ...
    • Differential effects of completed and incomplete pregnancies on the risk of Alzheimer disease 

      Jang H., Bae J.B., Dardiotis E., Scarmeas N., Sachdev P.S., Lipnicki D.M., Han J.W., Kim T.H., Kwak K.P., Kim B.J., Kim S.G., Kim J.L., Moon S.W., Park J.H., Ryu S.-H., Youn J.C., Lee D.Y., Lee D.W., Lee S.B., Lee J.J., Jhoo J.H., Yannakoulia M., Kosmidis M.H., Hadjigeorgiou G.M., Sakka P., Kim K.W. (2018)
      Objective To investigate the effects of completed pregnancy with childbirth and incomplete pregnancy without childbirth on the late-life cognition and the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) in women. Methods Using the pooled ...
    • Does SCFD1 rs10139154 Polymorphism Decrease Alzheimer’s Disease Risk? 

      Stamati P., Siokas V., Aloizou A.-M., Karampinis E., Arseniou S., Rakitskii V.N., Tsatsakis A., Spandidos D.A., Gozes I., Mitsias P.D., Bogdanos D.P., Hadjigeorgiou G.M., Dardiotis E. (2019)
      Α number of genetic variants have been associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) susceptibility. Sec1 family domain-containing protein 1 (SCFD1) gene polymorphism rs10139154 has recently been implicated in the risk of ...
    • Does the CD33 rs3865444 Polymorphism Confer Susceptibility to Alzheimer’s Disease? 

      Siokas V., Aslanidou P., Aloizou A.-M., Peristeri E., Stamati P., Liampas I., Arseniou S., Drakoulis N., Aschner M., Tsatsakis A., Mitsias P.D., Bogdanos D.P., Hadjigeorgiou G.M., Dardiotis E. (2020)
      Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex genetic disorder. To date, published data have reported conflicting results on the role of CD33 rs3865444 polymorphism in AD. The present study aimed at evaluating the effect of rs3865444 ...
    • Double hit viral parasitism, polymicrobial CNS residency and perturbed proteostasis in Alzheimer's disease: A data driven, in silico analysis of gene expression data 

      Vavougios G.D., Nday C., Pelidou S.-H., Zarogiannis S.G., Gourgoulianis K.I., Stamoulis G., Doskas T. (2020)
      The aim of this study was to determine the interaction of peripheral immunity vs. the CNS in the setting of AD pathogenesis at the transcriptomic level in a data driven manner. For this purpose, publicly available gene ...
    • Eating Disorders in Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: Evaluation of Brain Perfusion Correlates Using 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT with Brodmann Areas Analysis 

      Valotassiou V., Sifakis N., Tzavara C., Lykou E., Tsinia N., Kamtsadeli V., Sali D., Angelidis G., Psimadas D., Tsougos I., Papageorgiou S.G., Georgoulias P., Papatriantafyllou J. (2021)
      Background: Eating disorders (ED) in dementia represent a significant impairment affecting patients' and caregivers' lives. In frontotemporal dementia (FTD), ED include overeating, sweet food preference, stereotypical ...
    • Editorial: Cognitive Impairment: Therapy Momentum in the Continuum of Life 

      Nifli A.-P., Tsolaki M., Tournoy J., Ide K. (2021)
      [No abstract available]
    • The emerging role of helicobacter pylori-induced metabolic gastrointestinal dysmotility and neurodegeneration 

      Kountouras J., Boziki M., Polyzos S.A., Katsinelos P., Gavalas E., Zeglinas C., Tzivras D., Romiopoulos I., Giorgakis N., Anastasiadou K., Vardaka E., Kountouras C., Kazakos E., Giartza-Taxidou E., Deretzi G., Dardiotis E., Kotronis G., Doulberis M. (2017)
      Helicobacter pylori infection (Hp-I) is a prevalent disorder identified in themajority of the population in many countries around the world and is responsible for substantial gastrointestinal morbidity. Likewise, ...
    • Epigenetic regulation of apoptosis via the PARK7 interactome in peripheral blood mononuclear cells donated by tuberculosis patients vs. healthy controls and the response to treatment: A systems biology approach 

      Vavougios G.D., Zarogiannis S.G., Krogfelt K.A., Stamoulis G., Gourgoulianis K.I. (2020)
      Aims: The aims of our study were to determine for the first time differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and enriched molecular pathways involving the PARK7 interactome in PBMCs donated from tuberculosis patients. Methods: ...
    • Evaluation of memory performance in patients with brain disorders following rTMS treatment. A systematic review 

      Bonotis K., Anargyros K., Liaskopoulos N., Barlogianni A.-M. (2022)
      Objective: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is being used as a non-invasive, non-pharmacological treatment with emerging clinical applications. The objective of this systematic review is to assess the ...
    • Fetal position in Alzheimer's disease. An anatomic body remodelling due to retrogenesis 

      Tsoucalas G., Zibis A.H., Arvanitis D.L. (2018)
      Acquired fetal position by patients in end stage Alzheimer's disease is a quite common sign. The theory of retrogenesis was proposed to explain this anatomic remodelling of the human body. Copyright © 2018 Balkan Medical Union
    • Fish intake, n-3 fatty acid body status, and risk of cognitive decline: a systematic review and a dose-response meta-analysis of observational and experimental studies 

      Kosti R.I., Kasdagli M.I., Kyrozis A., Orsini N., Lagiou P., Taiganidou F., Naska A. (2022)
      Context: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) testing supplementation with eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA) fatty acids have failed to provide evidence supporting a suggested inverse association between fish ...
    • Genetics of COVID-19 and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: a systematic review 

      Tziastoudi M., Cholevas C., Stefanidis I., Theoharides T.C. (2022)
      COVID-19 and ME/CFS present with some similar symptoms, especially physical and mental fatigue. In order to understand the basis of these similarities and the possibility of underlying common genetic components, we performed ...
    • Genome sequencing analysis identifies new loci associated with Lewy body dementia and provides insights into its genetic architecture 

      Chia R., Sabir M.S., Bandres-Ciga S., Saez-Atienzar S., Reynolds R.H., Gustavsson E., Walton R.L., Ahmed S., Viollet C., Ding J., Makarious M.B., Diez-Fairen M., Portley M.K., Shah Z., Abramzon Y., Hernandez D.G., Blauwendraat C., Stone D.J., Eicher J., Parkkinen L., Ansorge O., Clark L., Honig L.S., Marder K., Lemstra A., St George-Hyslop P., Londos E., Morgan K., Lashley T., Warner T.T., Jaunmuktane Z., Galasko D., Santana I., Tienari P.J., Myllykangas L., Oinas M., Cairns N.J., Morris J.C., Halliday G.M., Van Deerlin V.M., Trojanowski J.Q., Grassano M., Calvo A., Mora G., Canosa A., Floris G., Bohannan R.C., Brett F., Gan-Or Z., Geiger J.T., Moore A., May P., Krüger R., Goldstein D.S., Lopez G., Tayebi N., Sidransky E., Sotis A.R., Sukumar G., Alba C., Lott N., Martinez E.M.G., Tuck M., Singh J., Bacikova D., Zhang X., Hupalo D.N., Adeleye A., Wilkerson M.D., Pollard H.B., Norcliffe-Kaufmann L., Palma J.-A., Kaufmann H., Shakkottai V.G., Perkins M., Newell K.L., Gasser T., Schulte C., Landi F., Salvi E., Cusi D., Masliah E., Kim R.C., Caraway C.A., Monuki E.S., Brunetti M., Dawson T.M., Rosenthal L.S., Albert M.S., Pletnikova O., Troncoso J.C., Flanagan M.E., Mao Q., Bigio E.H., Rodríguez-Rodríguez E., Infante J., Lage C., González-Aramburu I., Sanchez-Juan P., Ghetti B., Keith J., Black S.E., Masellis M., Rogaeva E., Duyckaerts C., Brice A., Lesage S., Xiromerisiou G., Barrett M.J., Tilley B.S., Gentleman S., Logroscino G., Serrano G.E., Beach T.G., McKeith I.G., Thomas A.J., Attems J., Morris C.M., Palmer L., Love S., Troakes C., Al-Sarraj S., Hodges A.K., Aarsland D., Klein G., Kaiser S.M., Woltjer R., Pastor P., Bekris L.M., Leverenz J.B., Besser L.M., Kuzma A., Renton A.E., Goate A., Bennett D.A., Scherzer C.R., Morris H.R., Ferrari R., Albani D., Pickering-Brown S., Faber K., Kukull W.A., Morenas-Rodriguez E., Lleó A., Fortea J., Alcolea D., Clarimon J., Nalls M.A., Ferrucci L., Resnick S.M., Tanaka T., Foroud T.M., Graff-Radford N.R., Wszolek Z.K., Ferman T., Boeve B.F., Hardy J.A., Topol E.J., Torkamani A., Singleton A.B., Ryten M., Dickson D.W., Chiò A., Ross O.A., Gibbs J.R., Dalgard C.L., Traynor B.J., Scholz S.W., The American Genome Center (2021)
      The genetic basis of Lewy body dementia (LBD) is not well understood. Here, we performed whole-genome sequencing in large cohorts of LBD cases and neurologically healthy controls to study the genetic architecture of this ...
    • Global, regional, and national age-sex specifc mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980-2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 

      Naghavi M., Abajobir A.A., Abbafati C., Abbas K.M., Abd-Allah F., Abera S.F., Aboyans V., Adetokunboh O., Ärnlöv J., Afshin A., Agrawal A., Kiadaliri A.A., Ahmadi A., Ahmed M.B., Aichour A.N., Aichour I., Aichour M.T.E., Aiyar S., Al-Eyadhy A., Alahdab F., Al-Aly Z., Alam K., Alam N., Alam T., Alene K.A., Ali S.D., Alizadeh-Navaei R., Alkaabi J.M., Alkerwi A., Alla F., Allebeck P., Allen C., Al-Raddadi R., Alsharif U., Altirkawi K.A., Alvis-Guzman N., Amare A.T., Amini E., Ammar W., Amoako Y.A., Anber N., Andersen H.H., Andrei C.L., Androudi S., Ansari H., Antonio C.A.T., Anwari P., Arora M., Artaman A., Aryal K.K., Asayesh H., Asgedom S.W., Atey T.M., Avila-Burgos L., Avokpaho E.F.G.A., Awasthi A., Quintanilla B.P.A., Béjot Y., Babalola T.K., Bacha U., Balakrishnan K., Barac A., Barboza M.A., Barker-Collo S.L., Barquera S., Barregard L., Barrero L.H., Baune B.T., Bedi N., Beghi E., Bekele B.B., Bell M.L., Bennett J.R., Bensenor I.M., Berhane A., Bernabé E., Betsu B.D., Beuran M., Bhatt S., Biadgilign S., Bienhof K., Bikbov B., Bisanzio D., Bourne R.R.A., Breitborde N.J.K., Bulto L.N.B., Bumgarner B.R., Butt Z.A., Cárdenas R., Cahuana-Hurtado L., Cameron E., Campuzano J.C., Car J., Carrero J.J., Carter A., Casey D.C., Castañeda-Orjuela C.A., Catalá-López F., Charlson F.J., Chibueze C.E., Chimed-Ochir O., Chisumpa V.H., Chitheer A.A., Christopher D.J., Ciobanu L.G., Cirillo M., Cohen A.J., Colombara D., Cooper C., Cowie B.C., Criqui M.H., Dandona L., Dandona R., Dargan P.I., Das Neves J., Davitoiu D.V., Davletov K., De Courten B., Degenhardt L., Deiparine S., Deribe K., Deribew A., Dey S., Dicker D., Ding E.L., Djalalinia S., Do H.P., Doku D.T., Douwes-Schultz D., Driscoll T.R., Dubey M., Duncan B.B., Echko M., El-Khatib Z.Z., Ellingsen C.L., Enayati A., Erskine H.E., Eskandarieh S., Esteghamati A., Ermakov S.P., Estep K., Sa Farinha C.S., Faro A., Farzadfar F., Feigin V.L., Fereshtehnejad S.-M., Fernandes J.C., Ferrari A.J., Feyissa T.R., Filip I., Finegold S., Fischer F., Fitzmaurice C., Flaxman A.D., Foigt N., Frank T., Fraser M., Fullman N., Fürst T., Furtado J.M., Gakidou E., Garcia-Basteiro A.L., Gebre T., Gebregergs G.B., Gebrehiwot T.T., Gebremichael D.Y., Geleijnse J.M., Genova-Maleras R., Gesesew H.A., Gething P.W., Gillum R.F., Ginawi I.A.M., Giref A.Z., Giroud M., Giussani G., Godwin W.W., Gold A.L., Goldberg E.M., Gona P.N., Gopalani S.V., Gouda H.N., Goulart A.C., Griswold M., Gupta P.C., Gupta R., Gupta T., Gupta V., Haagsma J.A., Hafezi-Nejad N., Hailu A.D., Hailu G.B., Hamadeh R.R., Hambisa M.T., Hamidi S., Hammami M., Hancock J., Handal A.J., Hankey G.J., Hao Y., Harb H.L., Hareri H.A., Hassanvand M.S., Havmoeller R., Hay S.I., He F., Hedayati M.T., Henry N.J., Heredia-Pi I.B., Herteliu C., Hoek H.W., Horino M., Horita N., Hosgood H.D., Hostiuc S., Hotez P.J., Hoy D.G., Huynh C., Iburg K.M., Ikeda C., Ileanu B.V., Irenso A.A., Irvine C.M.S., Jürisson M., Jacobsen K.H., Jahanmehr N., Jakovljevic M.B., Javanbakht M., Jayaraman S.P., Jeemon P., Jha V., John D., Johnson C.O., Johnson S.C., Jonas J.B., Kabir Z., Kadel R., Kahsay A., Kamal R., Karch A., Karimi S.M., Karimkhani C., Kasaeian A., Kassaw N.A., Kassebaum N.J., Katikireddi S.V., Kawakami N., Keiyoro P.N., Kemmer L., Kesavachandran C.N., Khader Y.S., Khan E.A., Khang Y.-H., Khoja A.T.A., Khosravi A., Khosravi M.H., Khubchandani J., Kieling C., Kievlan D., Kim D., Kim Y.J., Kimokoti R.W., Kinfu Y., Kissoon N., Kivimaki M., Knudsen A.K., Kopec J.A., Kosen S., Koul P.A., Koyanagi A., Defo B.K., Kulikof X.R., Kumar G.A., Kumar P., Kutz M., Kyu H.H., Lal D.K., Lalloo R., Lambert T.L.N., Lan Q., Lansingh V.C., Larsson A., Lee P.H., Leigh J., Leung J., Levi M., Li Y., Kappe D.L., Liang X., Liben M.L., Lim S.S., Liu A., Liu P.Y., Liu Y., Lodha R., Logroscino G., Lorkowski S., Lotufo P.A., Lozano R., Lucas T.C.D., Ma S., Macarayan E.R.K., Maddison E.R., Abd El Razek M.M., Majdan M., Majdzadeh R., Majeed A., Malekzadeh R., Malhotra R., Malta D.C., Manguerra H., Manyazewal T., Mapoma C.C., Marczak L.B., Markos D., Martinez-Raga J., Martins-Melo F.R., Martopullo I., McAlinden C., McGaughey M., McGrath J.J., Mehata S., Meier T., Meles K.G., Memiah P., Memish Z.A., Mengesha M.M., Mengistu D.T., Menota B.G., Mensah G.A., Meretoja A., Meretoja T.J., Millear A., Miller T.R., Minnig S., Mirarefn M., Mirrakhimov E.M., Misganaw A., Mishra S.R., Mohammad K.A., Mohammadi A., Mohammed S., Mokdad A.H., Mola G.L.D., Mollenkopf S.K., Molokhia M., Monasta L., Hernandez J.C.M., Montico M., Mooney M.D., Moradi-Lakeh M., Moraga P., Morawska L., Morrison S.D., Morozof C., Mountjoy-Venning C., Mruts K.B., Muller K., Murthy G.V.S., Musa K.I., Nachega J.B., Naheed A., Naldi L., Nangia V., Nascimento B.R., Nasher J.T., Natarajan G., Negoi I., Ngunjiri J.W., Nguyen C.T., Nguyen G., Nguyen M., Nguyen Q.L., Nguyen T.H., Nichols E., Ningrum D.N.A., Nong V.M., Noubiap J.J.N., Ogbo F.A., Oh I.-H., Okoro A., Olagunju A.T., Olsen H.E., Olusanya B.O., Olusanya J.O., Ong K., Opio J.N., Oren E., Ortiz A., Osman M., Ota E., Mahesh P.A., Pacella R.E., Pakhale S., Pana A., Panda B.K., Jonas S., Papachristou C., Park E.-K., Patten S.B., Patton G.C., Paudel D., Paulson K., Pereira D.M., Perez-Ruiz F., Perico N., Pervaiz A., Petzold M., Phillips M.R., Pigott D.M., Pinho C., Plass D., Pletcher M.A., Polinder S., Postma M.J., Pourmalek F., Purcell C., Qorbani M., Radfar A., Rafay A., Rahimi-Movaghar V., Rahman M., Ur Rahman M.H., Rai R.K., Ranabhat C.L., Rankin Z., Rao P.C., Rath G.K., Rawaf S., Ray S.E., Rehm J., Reiner R.C., Reitsma M.B., Remuzzi G., Rezaei S., Rezai M.S., Rokni M.B., Ronfani L., Roshandel G., Roth G.A., Rothenbacher D., Ruhago G.M., Rizwan S.A., Saadat S., Sachdev P.S., Sadat N., Safdarian M., Saf S., Safiri S., Sagar R., Sahathevan R., Salama J., Salamati P., Salomon J.A., Samy A.M., Sanabria J.R., Sanchez-Niño M.D., Santomauro D., Santos I.S., Milicevic M.M.S., Sartorius B., Satpathy M., Shahraz S., Schmidt M.I., Schneider I.J.C., Schulhofer-Wohl S., Schutte A.E., Schwebel D.C., Schwendicke F., Sepanlou S.G., Servan-Mori E.E., Shackelford K.A., Shaikh M.A., Shamsipour M., Shamsizadeh M., Islam S.M.S., Sharma J., Sharma R., She J., Sheikhbahaei S., Shey M., Shi P., Shields C., Shigematsu M., Shiri R., Shirude S., Shiue I., Shoman H., Shrime M.G., Sigfusdottir I.D., Silpakit N., Silva J.P., Singh A., Singh J.A., Skiadaresi E., Sligar A., Smith A., Smith D.L., Smith M., Sobaih B.H.A., Soneji S., Sorensen R.J.D., Soriano J.B., Sreeramareddy C.T., Srinivasan V., Stanaway J.D., Stathopoulou V., Steel N., Stein D.J., Steiner C., Steinke S., Stokes M.A., Strong M., Strub B., Subart M., Sufyan M.B., Sunguya B.F., Sur P.J., Swaminathan S., Sykes B.L., Tabarés-Seisdedos R., Tadakamadla S.K., Takahashi K., Takala J.S., Talongwa R.T., Tarawneh M.R., Tavakkoli M., Taveira N., Tegegne T.K., Tehrani-Banihashemi A., Temsah M.-H., Terkawi A.S., Thakur J.S., Thamsuwan O., Thankappan K.R., Thomas K.E., Thompson A.H., Thomson A.J., Thrift A.G., Tobe-Gai R., Topor-Madry R., Torre A., Tortajada M., Towbin J.A., Tran B.X., Troeger C., Truelsen T., Tsoi D., Tuzcu E.M., Tyrovolas S., Ukwaja K.N., Undurraga E.A., Updike R., Uthman O.A., Uzochukwu B.S.C., Van Boven J.F.M., Vasankari T., Venketasubramanian N., Violante F.S., Vlassov V.V., Vollset S.E., Vos T., Wakayo T., Wallin M.T., Wang Y.-P., Weiderpass E., Weintraub R.G., Weiss D.J., Werdecker A., Westerman R., Whetter B., Whiteford H.A., Wijeratne T., Wiysonge C.S., Woldeyes B.G., Wolfe C.D.A., Woodbrook R., Workicho A., Xavier D., Xiao Q., Xu G., Yaghoubi M., Yakob B., Yano Y., Yaseri M., Yimam H.H., Yonemoto N., Yoon S.-J., Yotebieng M., Younis M.Z., Zaidi Z., El Sayed Zaki M., Zegeye E.A., Zenebe Z.M., Zerfu T.A., Zhang A.L., Zhang X., Zipkin B., Zodpey S., Lopez A.D., Murray C.J.L., GBD 2016 Causes of Death Collaborators (2017)
      Background: Monitoring levels and trends in premature mortality is crucial to understanding how societies can address prominent sources of early death. The Global Burden of Disease 2016 Study (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive ...
    • The greek variant in app gene: The phenotypic spectrum of app mutations 

      Kalampokini S., Georgouli D., Patrikiou E., Provatas A., Valotassiou V., Georgoulias P., Spanaki C., Hadjigeorgiou G.M., Xiromerisiou G. (2021)
      Mutations in the gene encoding amyloid precursor protein (APP) cause autosomal dominant inherited Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We present a case of a 68-year-old female who presented with epileptic seizures, neuropsychiatric ...
    • Halophytic herbs of the Mediterranean basin: An alternative approach to health 

      Petropoulos S.A., Karkanis A., Martins N., Ferreira I.C.F.R. (2018)
      Wild native species are usually grown under severe and stressful conditions, while a special category includes halophytic species that are tolerant to high salinity levels. Native halophytes are valuable sources of bioactive ...