Background Depression is a common manifestation of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frequently observed at the early phase disease. Several postmortem studies demonstrated that tau deposition was found brainstem nuclei including locus coeruleus (LC) dossal raphe nucleus (DRN) (3, 4), even before Braak stages neurofibrillary tangle pathology. Given disturbance monoaminergic system related to depress...